But even if the CIA allegations were true, what all these people are missing is that the election result would not have been changed by the hacking itself but rather by the disclosure of the information that resulted from the supposed hacking.

Why is that an important distinction? Because it was the political corruption that was revealed by the emails that presumably influenced some voters to turn against Clinton. The supposed hacking was simply the means by which the truth about the corruption was brought to the attention of American voters.

In other words, if Clinton and her people had not engaged in wrongdoing, then the disclosure of their emails would not have any any adverse effect on them. It was their corruption itself, not the supposed hacking, that presumably led to their electoral debacle.