"Obviously, you believe "authority" is a kind of proof.."

OK, not sure where to begin with unpacking your comment. First, there's nothing in my post that indicates I take what Trump, Putin and Assange say at face value. I believe people should distrust any authority by default, and it is the role of the media to help them in that and keep authorities accountable (which the Globe, obviously, failed by publishing this piece of garbage). Secondly, institutions like "the FBI and the CIA and the President of the USA" are not to be trusted, because they lied many times before to advance their agendas (e.g. WMD in Iraq). Finally, Clapper's testimony presented no concrete evidence of the alleged hacking, and neither did this piece, although its initial headline had the word "undoubtedly" in it (and, by the way, the headline itself has changed four or five times already). What I'm saying is, let's see the evidence first and make conclusions based on that and not on what Clapper has to say.