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Embedded in Barr remarks is an important qualifier: Trump campaign collusion with WikiLeaks could not be an illegal conspiracy because WL publication of the emails was not a crime since WL didn't help hack them. 
I addressed the problem of trying to make WikiLeaks's role in the 2016 election interference a "crime" in this explainer about the Assange indictment last week nytimes.com/2019/04/11/us/…
This, by the way, is why this National Review hot take on the Assange indictment -- trying to make it seem like a Deep State conspiracy that Assange wasn't charged with a crime for "collusion with Russia" -- was dumb. nationalreview.com/2019/04/why-is…
Notably, the part of the report that contains evidence about Trump campaign outreach to WikiLeaks section of the report is one of the most heavily redacted sections, largely for potential harm to ongoing matters (see, e.g., the Roger Stone case). Here is a representative sample.
