What bothers me is that the bolded part is taken as gospel, and I'm reluctant to join in the "hands-up don't vote" crowd or "Blue votes matter" when we don't really know for certain who stole the info, who were they working for/with, what did they intend for the leaks to do? What did they get out of it?
You say with such certainty that it was the Rooskies. I'm not totally convinced it was them or them alone. At this point, I think we don't know enough to be able to understand the full nature of what went down, yet alone for a team of one branch of the CIA to leak to a hot-to-trot WaPo "journalist" the tantalizing red meat that "The Russians hacked the election and wanted Trump to win" line of happy horse shi t story-line that's been taken and run with like it's the next coming of the OJ Simpson white Bronco low-speed freeway chase.
Where's Julian? Who killed Seth Rich, and why?