The FBI and the National Security Agency, in the heat of the 2016 election, dissented from an intelligence community assessment that Russia was behind the leak of more than 19,000 emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
The FBI and NSA instead had “low confidence” in the attribution to Russia, according to a Sept. 12, 2016, intelligence community assessment released to the public for the first time on July 18 as part of a batch of records declassified by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).