The memo obviously went out among the sources of Elite opinion that they should accuse the Russians of “hacking” the election. The coordination of the message, and the message rather than the news is exactly what it is, cannot be chalked up to coincidence. This word was deliberately chosen to mislead. The use of the word “hacking” suggests that the Russians hacked into voting machines and added votes to Trump or something of that nature, but that is not what is being alleged even by the most unhinged. What is being alleged, even if entirely true, is that Russia attempted to “influence” the election.
One of the alleged means by which Russia attempted to influence the election was by hacking the DNC emails and turning them over to Wikileaks to release. This is superficially plausible, but the much more likely explanation that is shaping up is that the DNC emails were actually leaked by an insider with access rather than hacked by a foreign government. Julian Assange has confirmed this himself. But even if true, this would mean that Russia hacked the DNC’s emails, not that they “hacked” the election.
