This reads like something to excuse the behavior of the left and MSM obsessing of the Russian hacking. What is so secretive about this that they had to use a message boy? Sounds to me like the Russian story is going away but they still needed something to make it look like it was real.
For a leak this story was very long and detailed, just like somebody lying.
The level of secrecy the Obama admin apparently used to hide their own activities from our own intel agencies proper, is way out of proportion to what the Russians wee doing- basically just spewing propaganda- as they always have done.
Instead, it sounds to me more like the secrecy and security precautions a group of domestic partisans would employ to undermine our country’s elections and try to install their own partisan government.