Well, this was a long-laid plan, not some mashup concocted over a weekend. It relied on very serious and deep sabotage infiltration. It may have taken months to prepare. In other words, this may have been in the background since March, or even earlier. With international collusion (to use a favorite word) all this while. It is as much a sneak attack on Trump, as on Putin. This is like deliberately loading the Lusitania with war munitions in hopes of a huge incident.