Democrats can shout “Russia hacked the election” until they’re blue in the face, but the fact remains that John Podesta wasn’t “hacked,” and neither was the Democratic National Committee.

Both Podesta and the DNC were duped into opening the front door to their email accounts by revealing their password information to attackers, which is a far cry from the forced penetration of their accounts suggested by the term “hack.” The simplicity of the attack doesn’t make the results less devastating, but it does something to deflate the notion that Russia pulled off some kind of wildly sophisticated and dangerous attack. – READ MORE