What are the odds that Brennans visit to Russia in March 2016 was I the days following Podesta's discovery his email had been hacked?
Then he asked his buddy Torshin ex FSB to conduct hacking operations against the DNC to create a false trail of breadcrumbs they could tie to back to Russia/Putin to both discredit and justify the use of the IC to find the real source.
And Crowdstrike was brought in to create further breadcrumbs on the DNC side. Sadly the DNC leak occurred again, under their watch, forcing them to double down and eliminate the source [Seth] who could expose their plot.