The excuse is that because The Donald kept saying the election would be rigged the Obama administration didn't want to reveal what we knew about what Putin was directing hackers to do on Trump's behalf for fear of being accused of doing just that...rigging the election. So the Obama administration sat on the info and said nothing and did nothing although allegedly Obama put into place a way to blow up the Putin plan if it came to that. If you were Obama would you have blown the whistle and let the American people know exactly what was being done as soon as it was discovered or would you have done exactly what he did...kept it close to the vest..and let the American people stay ignorant/uninformed and vote from ignorance? Why ?