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That's a brilliant thought. I think Awan performed many cyber functions. Most think he was just spying, but to me it seems like much more. Platte River, CrowdStrike seem to be clueless, or just used as cover stories/companies to hide some stuff going on behind the scenes.
Awan and his associates had unrestricted access to many different computer systems on Capital Hill, stole equipment, etc. Did they help hide and encrypt their comms? How did they set up a system where Obama could also communicated with them? Who could they trust to do that?
Makes a lot of sense Iwan and crew were brought in to masquerade as Russian Hackers, plant evidence to that effect.