James Clapper (National Security Director) and John Brennan (Director of the CIA) were instrumental in spreading this fiction throughout the media. As even the New York Times eventually had to admit, there were only three intelligence agencies that gave any assessment at all (NSA, FBI, CIA), and only two of them gave a ‘High Confidence’ rating to the assessment. This is most probably because, regardless of established FBI procedures and common sense, the investigating body (the FBI) never inspected the server. The DNC refused to turn over the computer and instead hired the highly partisan company CrowdStrike to do a private forensic analysis and provide those results to the FBI.
Therefore, we only have the word of the DNC, James Comey, John Brennan, and James Clapper that the Russians ever hacked the server in the first place – and the server has since been destroyed. The DNC has an obvious conflict of interest and all three of these Deep State bureaucrats have already been exposed as heavily pushing the debunked Steele Dossier. Their pushing of the ‘Russian interference’ meme is self-serving, possibly criminal, and should be highly suspect.