The accusation that people who find this credible are uncritical is unfounded and insulting. The question is not "would someone in a government agency lie for political reasons," it is "would this many people, in a bunch of different agencies that have a history of lying to and competing with and distrusting each other, all sign on to the same lie, publicly, even though it's almost certain to be disproven in a few months."
Meanwhile, here's the alternative theory:
1. Some Russian intelligence agency hacked the DNC's email servers
2. They left behind evidence
3. The FBI/NSA//DHS/etc found that evidence
4. They classified it and aren't going to put it in a press release
None of those are the least bit hard to believe, and they are collectively WAY easier to swallow than this hypothetical vast, high-level conspiracy to discredit Trump or whatever it's supposed to be for.