It was more Information Warfare than hacking - releasing things to move "hearts and minds".
You mean the same FBI who issued a damning press release about Hillary Clinton the week before the election, and then stated there was no issues....
What the actual reports said...
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
Anyway, it wasn't just the FBI - are you saying they all got it wrong?
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This report includes an analytic assessment drafted and coordinated among The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and The National Security Agency (NSA), which draws on intelligence information collected and disseminated by those three agencies.
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Moscow’s influence campaign followed a Russian messaging strategy that blends covert intelligence operations—such as cyber activity—with overt efforts by Russian Government agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediaries, and paid social media users or “trolls.”
Russia, like its Soviet predecessor, has a history of conducting covert influence campaigns focused on US presidential elections that have used intelligence officers and agents and press placements to disparage
candidates perceived as hostile to the Kremlin.
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