How did Papdroponous learn about the e mails?

Veteran Intel Officials Blast Mueller Probe Over Refusal To Interview Assange

According to this private consortia of Intel officials, the evidence that Russians hacked the servers is weak.  The idea that Miftsad was passing on Russian intelligence,  on emails that had would have been unusual.  Especially considering the Trump Tower meeting of two months later where no Russian mention e mails.

If the Russians did not pass the email info to Miftsad, then who did? At that point only two groups knew of the hack, the FBI and the culprit who stole the emails.  Why would Miftsad deny passing the info, there is no other place that Papadroponous could find that info, and he wasn't looking. Yet he knew about emails two weeks after the Mifstad meetings, as Downer is willing to testify.

Why would the Russians produce a fake  Guccifer when they had already revealed the ownership of the emails?  The only Russian explanation I come up with is that Putin got pissed about something, and just sent the whole batch to Assange and forgot about trying to sell the emails. That would mean a change of course that require Miftsad to lie about the meeting, making Miftsad a Russian agent.  Why else  isn't Miftsad honest about the whole set of meetings?  

Another Russian theory is that Putin gave up on the sale of emails because the election was too soon to make the deal work. By then the Trump Tower meeting would have nothing to offer about emails.

I hold to my base theory.  Trump was doing hotels deals with Russian oligarchs and that is what worried him.  Trump knew shit about emails, he was trying to hunt them like anyone else, and Mueller confirms my theory in part.

Hillary had this problem with the emails, about half the voters were on Putin's side, still are.  Never forget folks like me and a whole lot of others fear the Swamp middle east oil plots, their military costs  and the subsequent bombings of US citizens.t.  We all view Putin as our protectorate there, not the US military. Trump and Bushies were the enemies, the ones doing oil deals with terrorists in the middle east.