5 years ago this week, Michael Flynn dined with Putin. The same week, NRA officials flew to Moscow and met/partied with Russian government leaders, Russian spy Maria Butina and her handler, Torshin.

Now Russia has conducted one of the most devastating hacks on the US in history.

It has been 5+ years of acquiescence to Putin. And this is what it leads to.

At the same time, one has to understand the difference between the 2016 DNC hack/leak operation and what is occurring now with the Cozy Bear attacks. This intel gathered via the recent hacks will likely not be used in an overt political manner. (1/2)

Cozy Bear is "traditional espionage" in that they exfiltrate data to spy and learn more about the inner workings of US government agencies and large corporations. It's not the type of intelligence operation that would likely be publicly deployed. It is for Russia to steal+learn.

Oftentimes, Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear aren't even aware of what one another is doing. They have entirely different goals. Not all Russian intelligence operations are the same.

Excerpt from my book on this