Most news outlets in the USA, the UK, and in Canada do not base their writings on facts, but on geopolitical goals. If saying something might provoke a public reaction that aids furthering their geopolitical or ideological goals, then most news outlets will say that thing, even when it is entirely false, defamatory, and leading to great injustice and prejudice against the target.
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The former Technical Director of the NSA, who designed the NSA's data transfer systems, and who wrote much of the NSA's own spy tools that they now use against foreign governments and USA citizens, Bill Binney, has resolutely asserted that the "hacks" were no hacks, but leaks, and that calling them hacks is entirely ignorant of what hacking is, how it works, and what traces it leaves behind.
Also, a large group of current and former USA intelligence workers have signed a public appeal stating that a forensics examination conclusively proves that the DNC wasn't hacked, but accessed by a DNC insider & leaker.