You can bet Obama and Lynch have made this the highest priority of the FBI. They will move heaven and earth to get the answer.
Panic and flailing about. Timing will probably have a release by Assange after she wins the vote and just before the speech.
Mebbe so. But it will avail then naught.
The cat's out of the bag. The released emails and those that will be coming have already been copied and placed in the hands of several sympathetic parties who will release them all the same.
Wikileaks, Guccifer and others can have the FBI chasing it's collective tail for months on end.
Or they could buy a mirror...