May ??, 2016 Comey briefs Obama's NSC principals about "the [Carter] Page information" sometime late Spring 2016
May ??, 2016 Stefan Halper communicates with Steele, according to Yaacov Appelbaum
May 02, 2016 Comey drafts initial statement regarding Hillary's use of a private server
May 03, 2016 Paul Combetta has a second interview with the FBI and he admits that he did know that emails he bleached from the server were under congressional orders to be preserved as evidence. Conflicting with his Feb 18 interview.
May 04, 2016 Sussman calls CrowdStrike's Shawn Henry regarding DNC server
May 05, 2016 Crowdstrike receives first payment from DNC
May 05, 2016 James Baker, Lisa Page, Iris Lan, Kelly Welsh, and other agency lawyers meet at White House
May 05, 2016 CrowdStrike CEO, Dmitry Alperovich, installs Falcon software on DNC servers
May 05, 2016 CrowdStrike responds to the DNC’s hack; however, emails continued to be stolen for weeks
May 13, 2016 Event logs from a DNC computer are cleared in order to cover tracks of remote hackers
May 15, 2016 Crowdstrike claims it investigated DNC hacking and that the Russians were responsible. FBI denied access to server
May 15, 2016 Fusion GPS hires Nellie Ohr for their Russian research
May 16, 2016 Rybicki email cc'd to major DOJ players re: MYE
May 18, 2016 McCain introduces S.2943 "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017"; signed 12/23/16
May 19, 2016 NYT: "Trump Aide Paul Manafort Promoted to Campaign Chairman and Chief Strategist"
May 23, 2016 Nellie Ohr obtains ham radio license
May 23, 2016 WSJ: "FBI Investigating Donations to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe" (Wang Wenliang)
May 24, 2016 Peter Strzok interviews Heather Samuelson
May 25, 2016 "The [oldest] DNC email WikiLeaks published was written on [May 25, 2016]" [see: Dec 4, 2018 Daily Caller]
May 25, 2016 Politico: "Trump fires top aide" (Rick Wiley)
May 25, 2016 Secret Service agent interviewed by FBI, says Justin Cooper and Bryan Pagliano asked for help w/HRC's private server
You will note the true Russian hack occurred way before this date:
05/25/2016
and was being fought and monitored before this first date of Wiki email release