My head is exploding - Here's WHY Republicans won't go after Russia

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2. EVIDENCE

2/ Evidence: the short of version: a) FBI confirmed the breach to IL GOP. https://t.co/QAXxFNMO6O

FBI Notified Illinois GOP of Potential Email Hack in June
Party officials, however, say they were not told that it was part of a wide-ranging federal investigation of Russian activity in the nation's political system.
BY RICK PEARSON, CHICAGO TRIBUNE / DECEMBER 12, 2016
http://www.govtech.com/security/FBI-Notified-Illinois-GOP-of-Potential-Email-Hack-in-June.html

b) 300 innocuous emails from a multitude of GOP institutions, campaigns, and entities at all levels of government.
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20170217164707/dcleaks.com/index.php/the-united-states-republican-party/ …

All obtained either to or from accounts hosted on http://barracuda1.smartechcorp.net
An interesting set of senders and recipients, including names like

Peter Smith, the recently deceased GOP operative who participated in and funded oppo research that seeded the Clinton impeachment,

but notably, told the WSJ about his work to obtain HRC emails from Russian hackers 10 days before his suicide.

3. There's more, and additional context and significance to what I've shared here... but if anyone wants to dig in, especially background

4/ on any of the unknown senders/recipients for those emails, which - btw - were originally released on the now defunct DCLeaks site

which, at minimum, cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect points at as being a Russian-backed influence outlet, links to
https://t.co/ObIgMOoGmU
ThreatConnect Identifies DCLeaks As Another Russian-backed Influence Outlet
https://www.threatconnect.com/blog/does-a-bear-leak-in-the-woods/

Guccifer 2.0, posing to be American 'hacktivists'.