Also these are DNS lookups. It could be anything, certainly not grounds for proving that Trump was colluding with the Russians.
Freshly minted blog-posts have heaps of Russian bot traffic. Doesn't mean blog authors are talking to Russians. I suspect something like this is going on. However, the problem lies in the motivation of these people. Fundamentally they were trying to dig up dirt on a presidential candidate, and subsequently a sitting president.
So to continue the metaphor: the diary was a log of internet traffic that included random bot-traffic: like weather reports on the other side of the world that were auto-filled in the hypothetical diary. The techies involved with this knew it, but they still went ahead with the charade.
Also these are DNS lookups. It could be anything, certainly not grounds for proving that Trump was colluding with the Russians.
Freshly minted blog-posts have heaps of Russian bot traffic. Doesn't mean blog authors are talking to Russians. I suspect something like this is going on. However, the problem lies in the motivation of these people. Fundamentally they were trying to dig up dirt on a presidential candidate, and subsequently a sitting president.
So to continue the metaphor: the diary was a log of internet traffic that included random bot-traffic: like weather reports on the other side of the world that were auto-filled in the hypothetical diary. The techies involved with this knew it, but they still went ahead with the charade.