President Barack Obama is ordering an investigation into possible Russia-led hacking attempts intended to influence the 2016 election, White House counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco said Friday, according to Bloomberg News.
Monaco made the announcement at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor in the nation’s capital, Bloomberg reported. Monaco said that the report from the investigation will be released to Congress before Obama leaves office but not necessarily be made public.
“We may be crossing into a new threshold and it’s incumbent upon us to take stock of that,” Monaco said, according to the site.
This comes as several lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have called for an investigation into possible Russian interference into the U.S. election. Most notably, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has called for a probe.
Trump, for his part, has disputed claims that Russia would interfere with the election in his favor.
Were President Obama to discover that Russia hacked and directly rigged the outcomes in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, and Florida, and were he to provide impeccable, unambiguous and indisputable evidence to support this, everyone on the Right would assume that he was lying.
It’s where we are now.
I thought there was already credible evidence of interference – why not release that info now? Also, why NOT release the findings of this new investigation immediately after Obama’s been briefed on what has been discovered? Seriously, President Obama – many of us have questions, many of us don’t trust the November outcome. Peace of mind means a lot.
If so, then I say call marshal law, cancel the results of the election and hold a new one in a few months.
ETA: Oops. Make that ‘martial’ law – not ‘marshal’ law. LOL Thanks, @thunderclapnewman!
It’s not just the voting machines, it’s the fake news sites and message board posts and all the other manipulations. They don’t have to hack the machines. They hack the voters. Germany is up next.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/intelligence-agency-russia-destabilize-germany-44054910
And Joe Biden pinch hits for HRC.