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So you're trying to tell us that Russian APT teams could not have hacked into DNC servers because there might have been an internal leak instead?

Why not both? Why would Dutch intelligence care about supporting a random political faction in the United States?

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Not at all, but judging from the amount of effort put into starting a war with Russia around the same time I find it more likely that the whole thing was made up.

US intelligence, Dutch intelligence, UK intelligence, German intelligence, who cares? They're all in the same boat, and it's sinking fast.

doesn't that put Russian intelligence in the same boat too, if those mentioned could be involved in disinformation then so could russia

Reality check: The Russian economy completely depends on gas and middle class salary is 200 euro (said Putin). So who is sinking here?

At the same time they colonized Crimea, fought a war with Georgia. Who is starting wars here?

You might not like intelligence work, but that's another story.

>At the same time they colonized Crimea, fought a war with Georgia. Who is starting wars here?

Well, one could say those who befriended and armed their neighbourhood states like Georgia to use them against them, or helped install Nazi sympathisers toppling the legitimate government in Ukraine?

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