The DNC e-mails were released by WikiLeaks on a Friday, and the authorities had supposedly concluded their investigation by Monday. Compared to a year-long investigation of Hillary's e-mails.

You are right, nothing can be taken at face value. It's important to note that nobody has said the e-mails are fake, and DWS got invited to leave the DNC just when the e-mails were revealed.

In its initial contact with the DNC last fall, the FBI instructed DNC personnel to look for signs of unusual activity on the group’s computer network, one person familiar with the matter said. DNC staff examined their logs and files without finding anything suspicious, that person said.

What does that remind you of? It reminds me of Clinton's people saying there was "no evidence" of hacking in Hillary's server. Because as many have pointed out, the really good hackers don't leave evidence or it at least takes people as sophisticated as they are to find it. The funniest thing was when Clinton said it was guarded by the Secret Service, as though hackers had to come through the air ducts and lower themselves a la Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible into her basement in order to access her server.

It sounds like the FBI all but told the DNC they were being hacked and the DNC didn't take the threat seriously or their tech support was lacking. What isn't clear to me is how did the FBI glom onto the DNC hacking in the first place? In what context were they finding DNC stuff? These events predate the Wikileaks dump.

This is just another attempt by Team Clinton/DNC to focus attention on anyone but themselves. Now they're trying to tar the FBI for Clinton/DNC errors. What's most important is that a threat was identified, not who's suspected of being behind it. Actions to take include to force password changes, apply current OS and security patches, do a malware scan, lock down open ports, enforce SSH certificates, disable root login, perform a system reboot, etc. These are all standard sysadmin tasks when a system is attacked. It doesn't matter if the attacker is some kid in his mom's basement in Peoria or Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin. Common sense was sorely lacking at Team Clinton/DNC.