1. The Consortium News item was not an "article" it was a verbatim letter from a group of former CIA/NSA staff to President Trump. They have sent letters to past presidents as well challenging obviously "political" intel (like the Iraq WMDs)
2, The DNC insider leak was a likely an unhappy Bernie supporter. The most probable name is Seth Rich whose murder shortly after the leak has not been solved.
3. The Trump Jr. meeting was set up by a DNC contractor, Fusion GPS, through a media contact in the UK who knew Trump Jr from Ms Universe in Moscow.
4. Putin has no connections to the Russian lawyer.
Now ask youself the 2 hard questions: Why would a Russian lawyer pretend to have dirt on Clinton when she did not? If that was not the real purpose of the meeting, then what was? (Hint, it wasn't Russia's response to the Magnitsky Act either)