"what you don't understand is the FBI did not look (investigate) first hand the DNC servers."
"you are oblivious that the private security firms are the only first hand investigators."
... I do know that (and you still vastly overestimate your knowledge), and commented on it earlier. Who told you that CrowdStrike didn't share their findings, including their data basis, with the FBI, handing over all the malware and every last trace these left?
they shared their findings,but how do we know their assessment is correct?
I gave you detailed reasons why their process was suspect,and I gave you the reasoning behing why Fancybear was blamed, and I gave you the question of why the GRU would be so sloppy.
Would it not be more likely a hacker using the same malware, and leaving behind Cyrillic markings
would come for a Russian hacker, but not a Russia state actor?
Ah, and that fabulous "gold shower" dossier that fascinates you so much:
I didn't bring it up,and I'm not fascinated with it
Do you believe Comey shouldn't have informed the Trumpy about its existence? PO Oh, and BTW, since you seemingly are again on your "They are all nefarious actors in that treasonous IC community" - they "briefed anyway, then news of the dossier leaked out" - of course this dossier was privately contracted, and reportedly went through quite a few hands, so it was just a matter of time until it leaked, and the briefing in all likelihood had nothing to do with it.
i was not talking about the GShowers dossier being leaked,i was talking about the multiple targeted leaks ( which did not go through many hands) -some of which were blatant fake news ( per Comey) and all done to damage Trump. which goes back to my point that the Deep State leaks at will to uphold it's agenda
Then you are chiming in on the hyperventilation about "unmasking", a completely normal procedure (you may bet the Trumpy maladministration is doing it every week), because your handlers told you you should hyperventilate about it. There's no there there, except amongst Trump fluffers in Rightardia, where it is a major, major, major, major scandal. Laughable.
must you be so obnoxious? "handlers/rightards? cannot you speak like an adult in debate?
it is the frequency of the unmasking that is at question, as well as the Obama adm's new rules on lowering the bar between intel agencies..basically raw intelligence was "seeded" , then reports were generated by bringing up inquiries on the reports to gin up assessments, that were leaked to -some unmasked and some clearly attributed to Trump officials and campaign officials
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/obama-trump-russia-election-hacking.html
As Inauguration Day approached, Obama White House officials grew convinced that the intelligence was damning and that they needed to ensure that as many people as possible inside government could see it, even if people without security clearances could not. Some officials began asking specific questions at intelligence briefings, knowing the answers would be archived and could be easily unearthed by investigators — including the Senate Intelligence Committee, which in early January announced an inquiry into Russian efforts to influence the election.
At intelligence agencies, there was a push to process as much raw intelligence as possible into analyses, and to keep the reports at a relatively low classification level to ensure as wide a readership as possible across the government — and, in some cases, among European allies. This allowed the upload of as much intelligence as possible to Intellipedia, a secret wiki used by American analysts to share information.
In the weeks before the assessment was released in January, the intelligence community combed through databases for an array of communications and other information — some of which was months old by then — and began producing reports that showed there were contacts during the campaign between Trump associates and Russian officials.
Finally, we're speaking about an investigation, and you are seriously asking, "where does 'data gathering and developing sources' come into play"? Tell me you misspoke, please.
i asked you specifically where it came into play regarding the private security analysis,not an investigation in general.
You are argumentative without purpose,hypocritically ingenuous, and resort to insults to my intelligence
whatever you think of my ideas there is no call for this...we're done.
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(anatta)>*This is all thankfully becoming more irrelevant as Trump and Putin agreed to disagree on Russian meddling
and the "Russian collusion" meme has not been heard from since the beginning of the Congressional investigations.
Thankfully Trump and Putin are the adults in the room -not Congress for sure- and agree to tackle the thorny points in the US/Russian relationship. It was a very good start.*< (anatta)