U.S. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of endorsing “foreign interference” in the presidential election after he said recent leaks of Democratic e-mails were a “public service”.
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The messages, including disparaging conversations about Bernie Sanders between the Democratic Party’s then chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and party officials, led to Wasserman-Schultz’s ouster as the democratic convention was just beginning.
Then came the DNC email leak, a collection of almost 20,000 emails and over 8,000 attachments which showed favoritism toward Hillary Clinton over other Democratic presidential hopefuls.
Putin also suggested that in order to influence an American election, one would “need to have a finger on the pulse and get the specifics of the domestic political life of the U.S”.
Clinton, whom polls show as leading in the campaign for the US presidential election in November, has said Russian intelligence services conducted the cyberattack against her party. Putin told Bloomberg News in an interview Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a new interview with Bloomberg News, was asked about the issue of the long-standing dispute between his country and Japan over the Kuril Islands-a series of small islets off the northern coast of Hokkaido, running up to the southern tip of the Kamchatka peninsula.
James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said Russia’s “track record” of state hacking goes back at least a decade, so Putin’s denials aren’t credible.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov failed to reach a breakthrough deal on military cooperation and a nationwide cessation of hostilities in Syria last week, but said teams from both sides would try to finalize details in Geneva.
While U.S. officials do not believe that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is directly working with the Russian government, they do suspect that he is being fed intel by the Russian community, whether he knows it or not.
“I think that from the point of view of economic expediency and logic, it would be right to find some sort of compromise” on Iranian output, Putin said in an interview with Bloomberg, a transcript of which was published on the Kremlin website.
Members of the Democratic Party and members of the USA intelligence community have repeatedly accused Russian intelligence services as being behind the hack. It’s an extremely hard thing to check, it’s impossible to check.
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Putin’s claim put a “bit of spark” in oil prices even though the dollar fell today, Coombs said.
