Obama orders review of foreign attempts to hack U.S. election
Friday, December 09, 2016
VietPress USA (Dec. 9th, 2016): Please read this news from USA Today ndicated that President Barack Obama just ordered the US Intelligence Agencies to investigate and make full report of Russian hackers to influence the U.S. Elections:
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/12/09/obama-orders-review-election-hacking/95204588/
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WASHINGTON
— President Obama has ordered the nation's intelligence agencies to conduct a
full review of attempts by foreign hackers to influence U.S. elections — and he
wants a report before he leaves office on Jan. 20.
The review
will look back to the past three presidential elections, and look for evidence
of hacking beyond the the already disclosed hacks of Democratic campaign emails
that intelligence officials have attributed to Russia.
“We may
have crossed into a new threshold, and it is incumbent upon us to take stock of
that, to review, to conduct some after-action, to understand what has happened
and to impart some lessons learned,” Obama’s counterterrorism and homeland
security adviser, Lisa Monaco, told reporters at a breakfast arranged by the
Christian Science Monitor Friday morning.
Deputy
White House press secretary Eric Schultz said Friday the review was not an
effort to undermine the legitimacy of President-elect Donald Trump's win in
November.
“I want to
be clear here that this is not an effort to challenge the outcome of the
election,” he said. “The president has gone out of his way to provide for the
seamless transition of power.”
There were
indications of malicious cyber activity in the 2008 and 2016 elections, but not
in 2012. But given the recent concerns, the president ordered the intelligence
community to “go back with what we know now to use every tool possible as a
means of due diligence," Schultz said.
"What
the president asked for is a review to look at malicious activity timed to our
presidential election cycle, and so it will be broader than just looking at
this past election," he said. “I think that this is going to be a deep
dive. This will be a review that is broad and deep at the same time. They’re
going to look at where the activity leads them to look at.”
Much of
that review will be classified, but will be shared with Congress and state
elections officials. “We’re going to make public as much as we can,” Schultz
said.
Trump has
consistently said he is not sure there was hacking, and if there was, whether
Russia was behind it. He told Time magazine in an interview published this week
that he did not agree with the U.S. intelligence community that Russia was
behind the hacks.
“I don’t
believe it. I don’t believe they interfered,” he said. Asked if the
intelligence statements were politically driven, Trump said, “I think so.”
U.S.
intelligence officials have said they believe Russia actively attempted to
interfere with the U.S. presidential election, including a hack of the
Democratic National Committee's email system.
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