That is a reasonable position—and if valid the President should have owned that.
“There are major national security implications with these files. I plan to release what I can when I can—but these national security issues need to be addressed first.”
I lean towards the "burn the whole rotten structure down" side. Get rid of all the politicians participating in this and expose all the world wide intelligence agencies involved, whether ours, our allies or our enemies. If the CIA blackmailed an owner of an operating systems company to put a back door in his security, tell us and clean up the security failure.
I worry that this has gotten far enough that if the Republicans try to bury it they risk losing power over it without benefitting from the clean up.
Maybe I'm too much of a hopeful idealist or maybe I'm a burned out cynic, but I am tired of excusing everything for Realpolitik.