Disagree. Releasing unverified slog about your opponent days before an election when there's no time to find out if the claims are even true is the definition of a smear campaign.
When they did, they found nothing wrong. But it didn't stop the pure FUD cloud around them from affecting Hillary's reputation.
When something is leaked, people automatically assume it's bad. Republicans rode that high through election day.
The emails got dumped the same day extremely damaging "grab em by the pussy" video evidence of Trump was release. The whole thing screams political hitjob.
It's like when Trump's lawyer magically got his political rival's son's laptop and paraded it around, even though nothing damaging was on it. Republicans are resorting to banana republic style hacking and theft against their political enemies, which should terrify everyone