>3. SR contacts WL/ meets and tranfers emails with WL contact.
>4. WL starts publicly exposing emails/ exposes corrupt activities.
>5. DNC in panic, desperate search for culprit of leaks
>6. Discovers staffer SR behind the leak.
>7. Order 187 on SR
>8. DNC cover = blame Russia
Timeline is a little off. WL hadn't started publicizing anything yet. I think the DNC had already decided they wanted to blame Russia. SR was the only one who could contradict that narrative. In fact, maybe SR was going to expose that narrative, and had to be stopped before he could leak what Crowdstrike was REALLY doing.