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The FBI and the DNC both say the FBI got everything they wanted, but you're so committed to some conspiracy theory you can't accept direct testimony.

Odd that you make such a claim when I gave a link and the words of direct testimony in reply 43...

Full text: James Comey testimony transcript on Trump and Russia COMEY: In the case of the DNC, and I believe the D triple C, but I'm sure the DNC, we did not have access to the devices themselves. We got relevant forensic information from a private party, a high class entity, that had done the work but we didn't get direct access.
BURR: But no content.
COMEY: Correct.
BURR: Isn't content an important part of the forensics from a counter-intelligence standpoint?
COMEY: It is but what was briefed to me by the people who were my folks at the time is that they had gotten the information from the private party that they needed to understand the intrusion by the spring of 2016. The Mueller report isn't direct testimony, but you know that.

I'm curious about the “140 servers” claim.

I am not a computer guy, but my understanding is that one server can easily handle a couple dozen computers.

How many employees did the DNC have? Why did they need 140 servers? And why did they have to “decommission” all 140? Can't you just install a new hard drive and re-program it?

Also - it seems like it should be impossible to prosecute the Russians when the only evidence the FBI has is third party hard drive images with no chain of custody.

And what happened to the John Podesta computer/server that got hacked? Where is that?

...the people who were my folks at the time is that they had gotten the information from the private party that they needed to understand the intrusion by the spring of 2016.

Comey's saying his forensic team at the FBI got what they needed to do their analysis (server images and logs) from CrowdStrike.

Just like I've been saying.

They would have liked to get access to the physical servers too but that didn't stop them from reaching the same conclusion that CrowdStrike had.

I don't see the controversy here.