President Obama orders review of election hacking

President Barack Obama has ordered a full review of Russia’s involvement in the presidential election, a top adviser told reporters Friday.

President Obama has ordered a “full review” of what the intelligence community has called hacking activity related to the 2016 election and expects to receive the report before he leaves office, a senior White House official said today.

But since the USA government has already said that all 17 intelligence agencies agree Russian Federation was behind the hacks, Monaco’s meaning was clear.

The Obama administration could well complete a review of the hacking before the arrival of the next administration, given the prior investigations.

In a possible attempt to head-off a public outcry, Deputy White House Press Secretary Eric Schultz has also assured that the review is “not an effort to challenge the outcome of the election”, but rather “a major priority for the president of the United States.” . If Obama has the opportunity to find evidence of tampering, and make it public before he leaves office, it could mean Trump will have a trickier time batting away the insinuation that Russian Federation did indeed use hacking to create a democratic disturbance.

The CIA presentation fell short of a formal U.S. assessment by all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, the Post said.

But officials are still investigating whether the Kremlin wanted to help elect Donald Trump, or simply was seeking to sow discontent in the USA electoral process. Remember, a foreign power – especially a hostile one like Russian Federation – interfering in a USA presidential election is grounds for war, in the eyes of some.

“It’s pretty clear to me that Wikileaks was created to hurt (Democratic presidential nominee Hillary) Clinton and it could be us tomorrow”, Graham said, referring to published emails stolen from her campaign chairman and posted on the site.

On the same day Trump’s interview with time was published, the United States and five other Western powers denounced Assad’s government and Russian Federation for “their obstruction” of aid to those suffering in a “a humanitarian disaster” in rebel-held areas of the city of Aleppo. That would be in direct conflict with the view of the president-elect, Donald Trump who, in a debate earlier this year, questioned whether Russian Federation was even behind it.

“The problem with hacking”, McCain said, “is that if they’re able to disrupt elections, then it’s a national security issue, obviously”.

Democratic senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee have asked Obama to declassify more information about Russia’s role in the hacks.

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., who chairs the intelligence committee, said Obama had “ignored pleas.to take more forceful action against the Kremlin’s aggression”.

The White House said it would make portions of the report public and would brief lawmakers and relevant state officials on the findings.

Additionally, the Democratic National Committee was hacked last July and Wikileaks published thousands of damaging emails that exposed the committee’s bias toward Clinton over rival Bernie Sanders.

The investigation will be going back as far as 2008, the year which saw Obama elected to office for his first term as president.