Do you have any evidence of this?

I don't understand why the Russians would be capable of obtaining this data yet not able to release it without revealing that they were the source.

Unless it was their motivation to be linked to it -- but what does that gain them?

It seems like the more likely story is that all of this talk about the Russians is just a method of misdirecting people to discuss the theoretical Russian link but not the documents themselves.

You may have misunderstood me. I am saying that while attribution is a very tricky, difficult business fraught with guesswork and spectra of probabilities, in this one instance a ton of infosec people are throwing their typical caution about attribution out the window to claim full confidence in attribution to Putin on the basis of a shared IP address in France and a Romanian who says Guccifer2 doesn't write like a Romanian.

It is a great demonstration of what politics does to the minds of nominally cautious, reasonable people.

Thanks for the clarification.

That makes a lot more sense.

Still have no proof other than a spurious claim "Many people in infosec..."