By: iTopTopics Staff
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Photo by Newsonline, licensed under CC BY 2.0
Trump reinstated his doubts on US Intelligence agency’s charge against Russia’s cyber-attack by tweeting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s denial on Russia’s involvements in the hacking. Further, he blamed Democratic National Committee for being so careless to lead to the hacking. Trump’s joking about going back to the basic communication method, mail carriers, for important things to say to someone. Very funny, Mr. Trump! We are in the 21st century now.
Julian Assange said "a 14 year old could have hacked Podesta" - why was DNC so careless? Also said Russians did not give him the info!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2017
On Thursday, January 05, 2017, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Adm. Michael Rogers, head of the National Security Agency and Marcel J. Lettre, undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence testified at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on foreign cyber threats, reaffirmed their accusations on Russian direct interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper went into detail a well hacking plan and propaganda campaigns that went beyond leaking hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman with fake news and misinformation. Clapper also called out to the President-elect Donald Trump that “there is an important distinction here between healthy skepticism, which policymakers, to include policymaker number one, should always have for intelligence, but I think there is a difference between skepticism and disparagement.’’ South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham directed his strong message to President-elect Donald Trump, urged him to trust and respect US Intelligence community as well as people who serve him and the country: “Mr. President-elect, when you listen to these people, you can be skeptical, but understand they're the best among us and they're trying to protect us.” President Obama said he hopes once Mr. Trump receives his own briefing on Friday January 6th, 2017, with a 50-page document that US Intelligence presented with clear evidences on the cyberattack carried out under the orchestra of Putin, the President-elect Donald Trump and his team will reduce some of those tensions and doubts.