I recall the phone call Dmitri got on April 19/29? that woke him up and told him That FALCON had detected a breach ..lit up like a Christmas tree it did! Dimitri asked point blank Are you sure its the Russians? That was the call that "hired" DNC/HRC Board Sussman the Attorney (former DOJ/FBI also)..As you pointed out CS was already inside the DNC since December 2015..and actually earlier with the DCCC, and a host of other contracts with the DOJ and Defense Dept. But the readers of the "Russian matter that wasn't" would think they just showed up o the scene..very very misleading ..because it would avoid the obvious as the "elephant in the room" question :How did you miss them?
This even more when one takes into consideration the APT28 and its variants in the wild had been known since 2010 and by Crowdstrike, which was mentioned in the HBgary files when zeroing in on China in one detailed report amid dozens in the Wikifiles
https://wikileaks.org/hbgary-emails/fileid/27605/8292
I say Dmitri knew already because he worked at McCafee, one of the protocols used by HBGary, and they all routinely made samples available to each other and he is documented asking in other case for samples.
Falcon would have detected and documented the breaches already documented by..of course NGP/Van and even the MIS dept..and must have stretched 120 hours into 4 mos..thats ridiculous. 16 weeks..thats less than 10 hrs a week for an urgent matter..and well known virus already..vs..a week 8 years ago..
Then again it was.. free money..no work..mission accomplished..they got Bernie to drop the bogus suit.
Real gravy was about to hit the fan.
We know about the March Podesta Email Stash. They were in an"oh shit if those get out" mode..and that Obama had said he only knew about any server in February..a lie that would come out later in wikis release...nobody knew what would be released, except them. And they had to prepare the only route they had. Russia and most importantly..discredit wikileaks by hook or by crook. So they chose Crook
But something happened in April that made them bump up their scheme.
What could that be?
NSA Cut GPS fbi contractor access off on April 18, 2016! That's what..
The well Was Dry although they had enough content and old news clippings to give it ago.
Even GPS Glenn Simpsons wife went the next day to the WH
The Torrent of 702/302 queries was kneecapped.
It's like you find out from a friend that your English Professor knows you used cliff notes on a final paper and he's waiting for you..so you rush to erase parts you used and erase them..look at an old term papers and hope he doesn't own a collection of them on his shelf. too.Just like GPSFusion did...look up some wiki sources, and submit it with fingers crossed, and prayer on a wing.
In the meantime, lacking a real Russian you get the only Russian you know...and in the tank..with your FBI people inside his company and Funded by the same people running the HRC analytics...Google!
That Russian would be Dmitri Alperovitch..
Its so good that it may be why Comey had his exoneration letter already proofread by by the same team just kicked of the Mueller Investigation.
But we did'nt know that back then..that was yet to come. Hell..he didn't even have to look at the DNC ..NO WAY this could go wrong. NO WAY!
In this broad context of pandemonium, and false hubris Hillary and company believedthey could get away
came out in May 19 2016 before WIkileaks announcement..
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It was then Guccifer 2.0 was birthed after And Adam has already covered that admirably.
Russia was one thing..Wikileaks was another matter altogether..
Their mistake was mixing the two..
So when Wiki announced in June it had emails coming out..AFTER Crowdstrike announced the DNC was clean, and celebrated at a Brazilian Steakhouse..where even its CEO Kurtz tweeted No More Pandas afterwards...(I always thought it was bears)
They need to cobble up Guccifer2.0...and cobble him/her they did..pronto..complete with websites and an actress on twitter to go along with the program ...but as little boys know..you can only carry a dead frog in your trousers or under the bed..for so long..before mother notices a distinct odor at the dinner table..and starts sniffing in your bedroom..whilst you deny and claim you smell nothing..but then..comes that gaze..the one that can see through you..and bit by bit..you add something to your don't know what it is..to it might be something..and retract a bit here and there.(Just like CS did).until..by golly..how did THAT get there!