Meanwhile, as Democrats press the FBI for investigations into the Trump campaign and its officials, Wikileaks, the organization that has leaked the various emails and documents acquired by hackers, has vowed to continue dumping information ahead of elections.
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The FBI is investigating the attacks, which are widely believed to be the work of Russian intelligence groups.
Cummings, of Baltimore, is the top-ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
“It is critical for the American public to know whether those actions may have directly caused or indirectly motivated attacks against Democratic institutions and our fundamental election process, ” the House members wrote in Tuesday letter to Comey posted on Medium.
In a letter published yesterday, Senate minority leader Harry Reid writes to FBI Director James Comey to request that the bureau make a public investigation into the possibility that the Russian government will attempt to tamper with results of this year’s United States presidential election.
Former campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s work for a pro-Russian political party in the Ukraine.
Donald Trump’s campaign has plenty of problems, but the biggest one on the horizon may be a potential FBI investigation into the Trump/Putin hacking connection.
The Trump campaign called the letters a distraction.
The Kremlin has said repeatedly, and as recently as earlier on Tuesday, that statements accusing Russian Federation of involvement in any cyberattacks on the USA election system or the Democratic Party are groundless, based on nothing and totally unfounded. Bernie Sanders. The embarrassing disclosures ultimately prompted the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
It is interesting, but not a coincidence, that all of the emails released from the Russian hacks have been created to help Donald Trump. Kremlin officials have denied that.
“The new joke in town is that Russian Federation leaked the disastrous DNC e-mails, which should never have been written (stupid), because Putin likes me”, Trump tweeted in July.
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The news comes in the wake of revelations that foreign hackers penetrated election systems in both Arizona and IL.
