‘Russia’s Senior-Most officials’ Ordered DNC Hack

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/07/russia-s-senior-most-officials-ordered-dnc-hack.html

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The Obama administration has concluded that “Russia’s senior-most officials” ordered hackers to break into the computer networks of American political organizations in order “to interfere with the U.S. election process,” intelligence and security agencies said in a joint statement Friday.

The statement was the administration’s first public attribution of the hacks against the Democratic National Committee and a second political institution to the Russian government. Privately, officials had said for the past few months that all signs pointed to an operation being directed by Moscow intended to meddle with the November election.

That evidence mounted as law enforcement and intelligence agencies sifted through technical details about the hack and eventually reached a consensus that Russia was to blame, a senior administration official told The Daily Beast.

The process continued “as the intelligence community gathered more information and got higher and higher degrees of confidence” attributing the hacks to Russia, the official said. The agencies, along with the Department of Homeland Security, came to a consensus “recently” the official added, without specifying a precise date, but he added that intelligence and law enforcement “worked as quickly as possible to release as much information as possible” without compromising sensitive sources and methods.


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