I agree. Obama, NatSec and Intelligence knew it all in Sept-October 2016

[blake2012]

If not sooner. The timing isn’t about finding out what happened. The slow drag of the investigation is due to being opposed at every step by Trump and GOP and ensuring they do not verything by the book.

If they knew how dirty Trump was by August, September and October, Obama and tram had many months prior to election let alone by the time of inauguration to ensure records were saved and the right people had them.

[Skittles]

1. I wish they had clued in the American people

[triron]

2. I think some in his administration feared the Russians might alter

the vote counts (due to evidence of broaching state's voter registration systems).
As much is stated in the book "Russian Roulette".

[blake2012]

3. What would have stopped them from altering vote counts

How do we know they didn’t?