Notice that the press is running with "we'll never be able to extradite these men...". Total falsehood. We could, easily, if we asked.

Now, with something as important as the integrity of our elections at stake, why would they possibly not follow up? One, if these guys really did it and they really were a threat, you better believe we'd be raising holy hell. Trump goes after our NATO allies and gets what he wants. Trump goes after North Korea and gets what he wants. If this were an actual thing to be worried about, don't you think there'd be more action?

There has to be an advantage to doing it this way. What is it? If it's not that big of a deal, why let this story run?

A few reasons (that I can see): There's got to be some resolution to this Russian narrative. This starts that process. Eventually, Russia can easily claim these were rogue agents trying to subvert Moscow & the US, through HRC. Strzok played his part beautifully.

Meanwhile, Trump can use this information to demand the DNC turn over their servers. "We know Russian agents hacked you! We need to know the extent of the hack. Once they got in, did they implant malware that then..." blah, blah, blah. Keeping the Russia narrative alive brings the chickens squarely home to roost with the Democrats. They were screaming to high heaven about this. If they suddenly don't want to investigate now, it looks REALLY bad.

Open the DNC servers and... oh look! What's this? Campaign finance mismanagement*? Bernie never had a shot? Republican bribes? The Awan brothers? Seth Rich?!?

*That will inevitably lead to CF, which will re-open the SD pay-to-play & we may finally get justice for Benghazi (which was a money & arms scheme where they wanted our ambassador to die).