The Latest Evidence That Russia Was Behind the DNC Hack Should Trouble You a Lot

By Jeremy Stahl

The top leaders in Congress have known for a year that the Democratic Party was under attack by Russian hackers, Reuters reported on Friday. Citing three sources familiar with the matter, the news agency said U.S. intelligence officials gave the top leaders in Congress and the ranking members of the intelligence committees from both parties in the House and Senate a top secret briefing that “U.S. spy agencies had concluded that two Russian intelligence agencies or their proxies were targeting the Democratic National Committee, the central organizing body of the Democratic Party.”

The officials included then–House Speaker John Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Democratic Minority Leader Harry Reid, ranking Senate Intelligence Committee members Sens. Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, and ranking House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence members Reps. Devin Nunes and Adam Schiff.

The officials were not allowed to disclose information about the hack because U.S. intelligence officials were monitoring the hacking using sources and methods they wanted to remain secret.

The new report would seem to confirm what experts have suspected since WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee last month on the eve of the party’s convention: That the Russians were behind the attack.

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