Appearing before House committee on Nov. 17, James Clapper declined to comment on whether Russia shared any information over 18 months leading to US elections-Reuters

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11/17/16, "U.S. spy chief to resign as Trump takes office," Reuters, Dustin Volz, Mark Hosenball

"Before last week's presidential election (James) Clapper's office issued a pre-election declaration accusing Russia of hacking U.S. political operatives and individuals as part of a scheme to “interfere with the U.S. election process." On Thursday (Nov. 17) he declined to comment on whether the Russians had shared any of the [allegedly] hacked information with unnamed Americans in the past 18 months.... 

Clapper appeared before the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee hearing on Thursday and Representative Adam Schiff, the committee's top-ranking Democrat, lightheartedly said he hoped Clapper would stay in the job for four more years.
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"I submitted my letter of resignation last night, which felt pretty good," Clapper responded. "I've got 64 days left.""...
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Clapper: Russian "activity" slowed down weeks before Nov. 8 US election:

11/18/16, "Clapper hot air claims Russia stopped hacking after US warnings," sott.net

"Weeks before the November 8 election that was won by Republican Donald Trump, the U.S. intelligence community said publicly that senior Russia officials likely authorized the hack of e-mails of the Democratic National Committee."...

[Ed. note: No "hacking" needed. DNC virtually gave its information away by failing to take advice of computer security experts it hired in Sept. 2015, thus allowing unspecified intruders to reside on its computers for nearly a year, well into 2016: 7/26/16, "Democrats Ignored Cybersecurity Warnings Before Theft," Bloomberg, Michael Riley

 "The Democratic National Committee was warned last fall that its computer network was susceptible to attacks but didn’t follow the security advice it was given, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The missed opportunity is another blow to party officials already embarrassed by the theft and public disclosure of e-mails that have disrupted their presidential nominating convention in Philadelphia and led their chairwoman to resign.

Computer security consultants hired by the DNC made dozens of recommendations after a two-month review, the people said. Following the advice, which would typically include having specialists hunt for intruders on the network, might have alerted party officials that hackers had been lurking in their network for weeks -- hackers who would stay for nearly a year.  Instead, officials didn’t discover the breach until April....

Cyber-security assessments can be a mixed blessing. Legal experts say some general counsels advise organizations against doing such assessments if they don’t have the ability to quickly fix any problems the auditors find, because customers and shareholders could have cause to sue if an organization knowingly disregards such warnings."...]

(continuing): "Those e-mails were later leaked, embarrassing party leaders.

Russia denied the hack.

Clapper, who is director of national intelligence, said the formal accusation and later threat of retaliation appeared to shut down the activity.

"It may have had the desired effect, since after the issue of the statement and the communication took place between our government and the Russian government [weeks before the Nov. 8 election], it seemed to curtail the cyber activity that the Russians previously were engaged in,"
he said."...

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