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(From Guccifer thread)
If memory serves, the Steele dossier mentions a concerted Russian effort to affect the election, including infiltration of the campaigns, and I would guess the major political party HQs.
Russian methodology is to develop and place human assets where they want them, and always to add in layers of plausible deniability. (e.g. the hacker"patriots" alluded to by Putin, who just happen to do whatever is in the interest of the Russian government)
The evidence you have presented in this thread shows an insider copying and pasting data, with a clumsy attempt to make it look Russian that would be easily identifiable as such by anyone with any sophistication. That insider was, apparently Seth Rich, who met an unfortunate and mysterious end. An end that mirrors, coincidentally, that of a Russian inteligence general who was killed shortly after the Steele dossier was made public, as was Rich.
Hypothesis:
Rich was a Russian intelligence asset in the mold of so many Americans who have been recruited through greed and/or blackmail, and downloading what data he could, in a way that would provide the Russians with an easy way to say they were being framed if it ever came to light.
The Russians, per the Steele dossier, were said to be somewhat alarmed about getting caught out, and were scaling back their activities. Their efforts in this regard, were to tie up loose ends, Rich being one, and the Russian intel general being another.
This hypothesis explains, without many extra assumptions, the observed evidence, as well as conforming to known Russian intelligence methodology.
Both the aim, and methods here appear consistant with Russian intelligence.
