Yes, I know about “social” or “soft” hacking, but c’mon, they are trying to mislead the public into thinking the Russians employed a crack team of cyber spies who put great time and effort into bypassing our digital defenses to get into Podesta’s creepy emails. In reality he was so stupid he basically just said “duurrrrrr here you go comrades!”
Yes, that much is true, the whole “Fancy Bear” angle is pretty much baloney invented by Crowdstrike and swallowed uncritically by the government.
In fact, there was an old investigation done on reddit that pretty much conclusively showed that the whole “Guccifer 2.0” thing was an invention of the DNC or someone working on their behalf to set up the “Russian hacker” narrative. I think those threads have disappeared down the memory hole now.