You keep arguing that there should have been no investigation.
There was a Crime committed. All informed sources have implicated the Russian intelligence services. You are stuck on blaming some unnamed worker at the DNC for wanting to help Trump...but have no evidence what so ever...not even circumstantial evidence. The Crime was clearly intended to benefit the Trump campaign.
You've relied on statements by Assange, as if he is a credible source. Of course, Putin and Trump wouldn't lie...right? But the FBI and the heads of US intelligence services would. Would that be your version of character assassination?
That there was no monitor in place when the extracted email was copied from the email servers does not mean the idea that it was the Russians is discredited. What is discredited is the idea that the NSA is capturing all internet traffic.
Where did I ever say there shouldn't have been an investigation of the DNC hack? I'd love to see areal (public) investigation of that. One focused on:
1. Why was the server not made available to the FBI?
2. Why was Crowdstrike unable to substantiate that the emails had even been pulled off the server (which implies an inside job).
3. Why hasn't Assange been deposed?
4. What exactly is the evidence possessed by "all informed sources (lefty euphemism for "unidentified deep staters," contrary to Crowdstrike's finding, that the Russian government got their hands on those emails (and how).
5. What is their evidence that proves these Russians are the ones who provided them to Wikileaks?
There was a monitor in place when the emails were "exfiltrated." The dates of the latest emails in the Wikileaks trove were a week to ten days after Crowdstrike was hired to look into the hack. I provided you a link that showed they collect about 75% of all internet traffic (think: anything that hits a backbone). How would the "Russians" get those emails to, well, "Russia" without traversing a backbone?
That is what I want to see investigated!