Clearly an operative. But whose, do we think?
Laptop was likely not dropped off for repair (and forgotten about with its incriminating material) either. Hooker probably took that from H and delivered to repair guy by prearrangement.
Exactly so. We did some of the damage, but the Russians and the Syrian remnant did the heavy lifting.
Who is the “someone” that dropped off the laptop and never came back, given its content?
Decidedly unlikely.