It looks like Putin did not want to hide the hacks
Power Line:
If that was Russia's objective, the Democrats have made it a screaming success. It is intriguing that they would not have taken steps that would have made it impossible to detect. When you consider that nothing they did had any impact on the election itself, it does look like a warning to Clinton who they along with almost everyone else thought would be the winner. Check out the link above to see Mukasey's analysis which leads him to think the Russians wanted the hack to be discovered.In this Wall Street Journal op-ed, Michael Mukasey questioned the timing of Robert Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russians on the eve of the Helsinki summit. I discussed the matterhere.In the same op-ed, Mukasey made another important point, one that has influenced my thinking on Russian interference since January 2017, when an experienced intelligence hand articulated it to me: If we know the Russians hacked the Democrats, it’s probably because the Russians want us to know....
The veteran intelligence hand I spoke with in January 2017 said that Putin’s goal in leaving fingerprints was to create chaos in our political system. But the two explanations — Mukasey’s and my friend’s — are not mutually exclusive. Putin might well have wanted to embarrass, damage, and warn Clinton in the likely event she won the presidential race, and to create chaos regardless of who won....
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