What if the hacking was simply an investigation of a suspected criminal enterprise. What if the enterprise were the obama campaign, and the investigating agency was the FBI?

The simplest explanation is that it was the Chinese or the Russians. Both have very large and well known cyberwarfare arms, including posting brigades. You will recall the large number of “posters” on this site during the Georgian War, and the large number of “Obama” respondents when I ran an informal poll during a debate.

The campaign database would be important because it can provide a “human map” of access to Obama, a database of social networking within the White House circle. The Russians or the Chinese will be looking for access to intel, influence, etc. They will work on who knows who guided by the knowledge of which persons are political more influential than others. Then they’ll look for people with big gambling debts, in danger of bankruptcy or who have deviances that would be a political liability. A map of connections is not something that you or I may know. Insiders know it, but if the Chinese or the Russians can construct a social networking map from what they get, they’ll be virtual doyens of Georgetown.