The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says Russian hackers have been bipartisan, targeting both parties’ national committees.
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Shortly after the interview and Spicer’s comments, McCaul walked his statements back and said he misspoke.
The Republican National Committee’s data has been hacked, according to a Republican congressman, though no documents have yet been published.
“What I meant to say was that in addition to the Democratic National Committee hack, Republican political operatives have also been hacked”, he said.
When asked why hackers had targeted the Democratic Party and not Republicans in July, RNC chair Reince Priebus speculated that his party’s superior security may be responsible.
“It’s curious that they released Democratic party information and not Republican party information”.
In the wake of the DNC hack, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump challenged Russian Federation to hack his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, and release the contents of her email accounts. The Russians have basically hacked into both parties at the national level and that gives us all concern about what their motivations are.
“I misspoke by asserting that the RNC was hacked”. “So this is uh, again they’re not picking sides here I don’t think”.
Sean Spicer, the RNC’s communication director, quickly took to Twitter to refute McCaul’s statement.
“So they are not discriminating one party against the other”. He added that he didn’t know the extent of the breach or what information the hackers retrieved, noting the breach is now being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“What we don’t know is the extent of damage done and what they were able to retrieve out of the RNC itself”, McCaul added. “I assume it is to you as well”, Blitzer said.
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McCaul has been the U.S. Representative for the Texas 10th congressional district since 2005.
