With Democratic nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton whining about losing the 2016 election because of alleged Russian hacking, President Barack Obama ordered intelligence agencies to investigate the claims. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, currently exiled in Ecuador’s London embassy, insists that Russia was not responsible for hacks into emails at the Democratic National Committee and Hillary campaign officials. Hillary wants to blame the Russians or whoever hacked the DNC or her Campaign Chairman John D. Podesta’s emails but takes no responsibility for her campaign’s dirty tricks. Assange exposed former DNC Chairman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz for colluding with Hillary to sabotage the campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Hillary didn’t like it when Podesta’s emails exposed former CNN pundit and Democratic operative Donna Brazile for feeding her questions before the Oct. 9 debate.

All the embarrassing emails didn’t help Hillary’s chances in 2016 but the campaign must stand accountable for the whole mess. Claiming the CIA has “high confidence” that Russian hackers were responsible for WikiLeaks disclosures engendered zero confidence from Trump transition officials. Obama possesses a classified CIA assessment about alleged Russian hacking but won’t release any details to the press. Given the CIA’s track record with Saddam’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction, Trump officials aren’t putting much stock in the CIA assessment. Given the long history of spying by Russia, China, and, yes, the U.S., there’s nothing odd that cyber crime is part of global espionage. What’s clear is that the Obama administration and war hawks on Capitol Hill, led by Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), oppose attempts by Trump to improve relations with Moscow.

Trump’s transitional team pushed back on the top secret CIA report fingering the Russians for interfering with the 2016 election. “The same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” said the Trump team, not buying current hype about Russian hacking. “People within these agencies who are upset with the outcome of the election,” raised hacking allegations, said transition team spokesman Sean Spicer. Whether or not Russia provided WikiLeaks emails doesn’t mean they manipulated the U.S. election. Politicizing the issue, incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) showed he’ll waste Senate with an investigation. “That any country could be meddling in our elections should shake both political parties to their core,” said Schumer, promising to work with the intelligence community to get to the bottom of how WikiLeaks got the emails.

Speaking about the Russia hacking brouhaha, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tx.), once a fierce Trump critic, agreed with transition officials that it was much ado about nothing. “Serious, but hardly news,” Tweeted Cornyn, regarding Obama request for a complete intel investigation. Calling Russian hacking allegations “silliness and paranoia,” Oleg Morozov, a member or the Duma’s Upper House, dismissed what looks like mass hysteria over the U.S. election. White House spokesman Eric Schultz called the alleged Russian hacks “malicious cyber activity” worthy of an investigation. If there’s a concern about foreign hacking, U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice must have dropped the ball on providing necessary firewalls to safeguard government secrets. Much of Trump’s campaign focused on how reckless Hillary was exposing government secrets on her private server.

When you consider protections against hacking or other types of electronic infiltration are the responsibility of government cyber security experts, they have no one to blame but themselves if foreign actors penetrated security firewalls. Complaining about Russian hacking because the election went south for Democrats does little to shore up vulnerabilities to the nation’s cyber security. “The president wanted this done under his watch because he takes it very seriously,” said Schultz. “We are committed to ensuring the integrity of elections,” not admitting lax cyber security opened the door for foreign actors. Russia’s Novosti New Agency hinted that elements within the U.S. government don’t want to improve relations with Russia. When it comes to Obama and Neocons on Capitol Hill like McCain, they are probably right. Trump’s pick for Secretary of State looms large.

Blaming Russia for the government’s Swiss cheese cyber security diverts attention away from failures at the National Security Agency. Rice has no one to blame but herself for whatever when wrong with U.S. cyber security under her watch. If foreign actors hacked the DNC or Hillary campaign, it should raise red flags to government or corporations trying to protect trade secrets. You can bet your life Coca Cola’s secret formula isn’t subject to Russian hacking. All the noise about cyber-security covers up the sour grapes by Democrats embarrassed by WikiLeaks during the election. Rumored to pick Exxon-Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, Trump hopes to reset U.S.-Russian relations. Tillerson will implement Trump’s plan of working with Russia to confront the world’s pressing geopolitical challenges, including radical Islam and other rogue states around the globe.