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You should try reading the whole article next time champ:On Saturday, intelligence officials said it was not until the week after the election that the C.I.A. altered its formal assessment of Russia’s activities to conclude that the government of President Vladimir V. Putin was not just trying to undermine the election, but had also acted to give one candidate an advantage.
That word " altered " is very meaningful .
So up to that point they saw nothing until they were told to find something.
"Wary of being seen as politicizing their findings, C.I.A. analysts had been reluctant to come to that conclusion in the midst of an election.
One intelligence official said there were indications in early October that the Russians had shifted their focus to harm Mrs. Clinton."