It is much more disturbing that President-elect Donald Trump has said publicly that he does not accept the conclusion that Russian Federation is behind the hack.
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The conference came a day after the USA president vowed retaliatory action against Moscow. “My goal is to put on President Trump’s desk crippling sanctions against Russian Federation.
We don’t want it to just be finger pointing at one person or another”, Schumer said during a news conference, Politico reports. “Do I have a misimpression?” So, look, I think that these guys should be straight with the American people and come out and say it. “I guess he’s auditioning to be a political pundit”. In what can only be described as an internet-era Keystone Kops story, a federal agent’s phone call was transferred to the help desk, where his call was not taken seriously.
Gates, who is no longer in government but has met privately with Trump, said he couldn’t confirm that Russian Federation was trying to help Trump win.
USA response: We do not yet know what measures the White House plans to take to respond to the Russian meddling. Trump did wind up winning narrowly in three key states, allowing him to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
In contrast, she added that Mr. Obama in his final press conference of 2016 was “refusing to go all the way here and say that Russian Federation had hacked into emails that went ahead and interfered with the election results”.
Russian government officials are not in contact with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team, said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Vladimir Putin, on Monday.
The secret briefing by CIA on 9 December 2016 revealed the conclusion of the agency that Russian Federation did intend to boost the chances of Trump, says The Washington Post. Results of this review are expected to be seen by President Obama before his term expires.
“Absolutely not. Those conversations never happened”, Conway said, calling claims otherwise “inaccurate and false and dangerous” and saying they “undermine the democracy”. Trump tweeted Friday morning, the latest in his quest to diminish the cyberattacks that USA intelligence officials unanimously believe were carried out by the Russians. Why, when CIA officials were invited to a House Intelligence briefing did they refuse to go? “One could say that those things might not have been a coincidence”.
Even members of Congress who requested more information will have to wait. “If there really is this conclusive opinion among all of these intelligence agencies, then they should issue a report and stand in front of a camera and make the case”, Priebus said. And it is possible that the intelligence community and private sector cybersecurity experts are wrong about Russian Federation, as Trump’s team suggests.
The president-elect himself has denied that there is a consensus about Russia’s intent, even as The Washington Post reported on Friday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation agrees with the CIA’s findings about Russia’s desire to influence the outcome of the election.
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According to a senior U.S. official he said: “International law, including the law for armed conflict, applies to actions in cyberspace”.
