As others said, that's a bit of a stretch, at least to say that was their intent. It's also worth noting that the Saudi release in question occurred in 2015, but the outrage stories didn't appear until shortly before Wikileaks released the Podesta emails — which suggests the hackers had been pitching them to mainstream news outlets, who rejected the story and instead looked for a preemptive shoot-the-messenger angle on the outlet that did [they assumed?] agree to publish them, Wikileaks.

Of course it was their intent. You don't just accidentally release information like that.

It seems like that is in large part a mischaracterization of what happened. Read the tweets and comments from around https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/768134865049030656

They don't seem to contradict each other, am I missing something? The article says WikiLeaks released government information that contained alot of personal information. The tweet says that they released government info and did not give info to the government.

They knowingly relayed and re-published that information. That's like sharing revenge porn, but far worse.