They are trying to organize a coup d’état. It won’t work.
If rogue elements of CIA are involved, they would need to remember that they are only a part of a larger whole.
My Tin Foil Hat Theory of the Moment is that the CIA is actually running an op to ferret out the leaker within the US intelligence community.
Step 1: Publish report that Russians hacked the emails
Step 2: Someone who knows the real source will eventually get flabbergasted and blurt out, “it wasn’t the Russians, it was so and so.”
Step 3: Gotcha.