New details of Russia election hacking

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Top Democrat Schiff criticizes Obama over reaction to Russian hacks

 

The Obama adminstration “should have done a lot more” to combat Russian interference in the 2016 US election before the result was known, a top congressional Democrat said on Sunday.

New details of Russia election hacking raise questions about Obama's response

 

 

Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House intelligence committee, also said Donald Trump’s complaints about White House inaction, tweeted after the Washington Post reported that Barack Obama knew about Russian interference as far back as August 2016, were like “knowingly receiving stolen property [and] blaming police for not stopping the theft”.

“I think the Obama administration should have done a lot more when it became clear that not only was Russia intervening but it was being directed at the highest levels of the Kremlin,” Schiff said.

“And indeed Senator [Dianne] Feinstein and I were repeatedly trying to make that case to the administration initially when they didn’t want to make attribution, to talk publicly about Russia’s role, and later when we issued our own statement and they did attribute the conduct to Russia,” he said, referring to the California Democrat.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/25/adam-schiff-obama-russia...

 

“Obama administration official said they ‘choked’ when it came to acting on Russian meddling of election,” Trump wrote. “They didn’t want to hurt Hillary?”

"choked"