More on the DNC and GMail Hack/Leaks

I'd like to update the last article with a correction, observation, speculation, and important questions.

Correction:

Rudy Giuliani is supposed to have received his information from retired (or possibly active) FBI agents who were working on the Hillary Clinton e-mail case. So, the information source was distinctly different from Roger Stone's.

Observations:

If the DNC leaker wanted the information to get out they could have specifically tried to give it to the FBI, Guccifer, and WikiLeaks.

The speculation or allegation that Seth Rich was going to meet with the FBI to deliver the leaked DNC information when he was killed may hold water if that information had made its way to the FBI case on Clinton e-mails, and therefore to the same FBI agents who were helping Rudy Giuliani. If that was the DNC leaker's intent it was fulfilled, though Giuliani apparently only got hints about the information.

For their party, both Giuliani and Stone appear to simply have been devout Republicans trying to gather whatever information on the Clinton campaign they could lay their hands to, in hopes it would help the Trump campaign to win. There's certainly nothing wrong with that motive, though the idea of getting information from the FBI is unethical and probably criminal.

Speculation:

I don't know why, but from the time I first heard of Guccifer 2.0 I felt it wasn't normal, that this might not be Russian at all. Then when Guccifer 2.0 had discussed things via Twitter with Roger Stone, I felt more certain it was more of a flypaper trap set by the U.S. government to try to discover which Americans were trying to secret out information to the Russians by simply setting up Guccifer 2.0, announcing it was the Russian hacker, and then waiting for someone to contact them.

So, if Roger Stone discussed something more than the publicly known Twitter stuff, the gov't would know what he had in mind. As I said above, I suspect he was just in the market to buy information.

Important Questions:

So, who was Guccifer? The first Guccifer was probably the GRU unit which hacked the DNC on its own. I have seen discussion that they also hacked the Podesta emails, but I'm not sure that is true. That needs clarification.

Did Russia really feed any information to WikiLeaks?
Was Guccifer really Russian government activity?
Who was the DNC leaker?
Was Seth Rich killed to "plug the leak"? Who did that?
Were there really other intermediaries who remain unknown?
Who at the FBI may have hinted at information for Rudy Giuliani?
Who on the WikiLeaks side gave or sold information to Roger Stone?

Did Guccifer hack the Podesta emails?

Was Guccifer 2.0 GRU or an impostor?

And, on the Russia and Trump Collusion path I haven't discussed, did Russia hack state voter registration databases and feed the information to the Trump campaign?

And, on the other Russian tactics, were they really feeding information to RT to get it to Breitbart.com and then FOX News and on to Donald Trump himself?

What is the full story on Russian trolls (humans on the net)?

What is the full story on Russian bots (computer program based identities on the net) and their use to influence people?

Surprisingly little of this relates directly to Donald Trump or his campaign, but a lot of it is Russian activities to disrupt and discredit our Democracy.