>One thing that still baffles me is why did the DNC choose a for profit consultant over the United States Government.
This is brilliant thinking, the DNC should have given the FBI more material to leak to Guiliani. Then Comey could have based his October surprise on something in the DNC servers, instead of having to obfuscate the fact that the emails he was basing his 're-opening' of the case on weren't anything new. Oddly enough, he had no problem concealing the fact that the other candidate was the current subject of a counter-intelligence investigation opened when the ambassador of australia formally notified the us that the trump campaign claimed to be cooperating with a hostile foreign power.
A contradiction your comment creates and you don't actually engage is the fact that the Crowdstrike report and the IC report on election interference both support each other. If you claim the DNC was trying to control the narrative, it's only necessary to hire outside expertise if you're trying to challenge the credibility of different experts. If the experts are already going to be saying the same thing as you, there's no need to pay an outsider to parrot it.
This is brilliant thinking, the DNC should have given the FBI more material to leak to Guiliani. Then Comey could have based his October surprise on something in the DNC servers, instead of having to obfuscate the fact that the emails he was basing his 're-opening' of the case on weren't anything new. Oddly enough, he had no problem concealing the fact that the other candidate was the current subject of a counter-intelligence investigation opened when the ambassador of australia formally notified the us that the trump campaign claimed to be cooperating with a hostile foreign power.
A contradiction your comment creates and you don't actually engage is the fact that the Crowdstrike report and the IC report on election interference both support each other. If you claim the DNC was trying to control the narrative, it's only necessary to hire outside expertise if you're trying to challenge the credibility of different experts. If the experts are already going to be saying the same thing as you, there's no need to pay an outsider to parrot it.