obviously it's that someone at the Smith & Wesson Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, wants me dead

First, it was the DNC (Democratic National Committee) whose emails got hacked, possibly by hackers hired by Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU (also known as APT 28 or Fancy Bear)

In previous posts I have noted APT is a designation for Advanced Persistent Threat.  It should be noted that in addition to APT28 there was also an APT29 also known as Cozy Bear or some other cutesy name associated with the Russians.

I admit I am too old to have taken the new math but I have to wonder not only about APT1 through APT27 but if there APTs higher than APT28.  Seems like there are a lot more problems than the Russians.

Does anyone really think the Russia has better nerds than China, or even Korea which has shockingly good nerds?

Now, it appears even the GOP has had enough. The Washington Post is reporting that two dozen Republican national security experts are expected to deliver a letter to Congress on Friday asking for an "immediate investigation into the cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee"
The letter was signed by high level members of both the Reagan and Bush administrations, advisers to John McCain and Mitt Romney and many State Department veterans. The letter states:

"This is not a partisan issue but rather an assault on the integrity of the entire American political process...Congress has a responsibility to get to the bottom of this extraordinary breach, not only to determine who was responsible but also to consider the appropriate response...The hacking of a political party's email system by Russian intelligence agencies would, if proven, constitute unprecedented foreign interference in an American presidential campaign."

So where are they?

Did pinko Trump and his russian spy comrades fail to pay enough to wikileaks or something?

nor does Wikileaks need Russia

in any case, why wouldn't Russia (if the hackers were indeed Russian) sit on the info, the better to exploit it later on, rather than give it to Wikileaks?

speaking of hacks, the contemptible George Stephanopoulos failed to challenge Robby Mook's original CYA claim that the Russians gave the files to Wikileaks, & then that talking point spread hysterically across all manner of left/liberal & Dem-affiliated blogs & other liberal media outlets, in much the same way that DNC/Democratic talking points are shown in the leaked DNC files to have spread reliably across all manner of left/liberal & Dem-affiliated blogs & other liberal media outlets

Howdy, here's an example of the genetic fallacy, just for you:

there is more than one reason to laugh at the notion that Putin got the files from Wikileaks in order to help Donald Trump, but let's say (for the sake of illustrating the genetic fallacy) that i scoff at this notion only because one of its major purveyors, someone who for years has been flogging the neocon idea that Wikileaks = Russia, is a serial fantasist & national security "expert" who lost his gig at the Naval War College after tweeting d!ick pics to a woman who was not his wife & who has been fired from every job since then & now lives off the Carnival Cruise packages of his second wife

see how the genetic fallacy works?

it works the same way when you refuse outright to consider another commenter's information (such as that offered by Trevor Bolder), even though it's factual, simply because the commenter cites a source that you don't like

"....From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification....

...Because she was not using a government account--or even a commercial account like Gmail--there was no archiving at all of her e-mails, so it is not surprising that we discovered e-mails that were not on Secretary Clinton's system in 2014, when she produced the 30,000 e-mails to the State Department....

 It is highly likely their search terms missed some work-related e-mails, and that we later found them, for example, in the mailboxes of other officials or in the slack space of a server....

Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information<strong>, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.</strong>

We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account. We also assess that Secretary Clinton's use of a personal e-mail domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent. She also used her personal e-mail extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors,<strong> we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton's personal e-mail account</strong>