Obama’s homeland security secretary just unloaded on the DNC

By Peter W. Stevenson June 21 at 12:47 PM

This post has been updated with statements from the Democratic National Committee, and from Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the former party chair.

Much of the conversation around Russian interference in the 2016 election has centered on two core topics: the Trump campaign's possible collusion with Russian officials, and whether Russia was actually able to change vote tallies by hacking into state election databases or voting machines.

But a high-ranking former Obama administration official served up a reminder Wednesday that Democrats were caught up in all of this, too — and said they could have done more to stop it.

Jeh Johnson, who served as Obama's homeland security secretary from 2013 to 2017, had harsh words for his old boss's party at a House Intelligence Committee hearing Wednesday, saying that the Democratic National Committee refused to accept help from the Department of Homeland Security, even after its email systems were hacked.

“Hindsight is 20/20,” Johnson said at one point in the hearing. “In retrospect, it would be easy for me to say that I should have bought a sleeping bag and camped out in front of the DNC in late summer.”

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