Obama Vows Retaliation For Alleged Russian Hacking
12-16-2016
President Obama said the U.S. will retaliate against Russia over its alleged hacking of the presidential election.
In an interview on National Public Radio, Obama said, "I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections . . . we need to take action...and we will, at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicized; some of it may not be."
Democrats and the mainstream media continue to push the CIA claim that Vladimir Putin was behind hacked Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign emails, even though the top intelligence official in Washington has not endorsed the conclusion.
While the CIA says Russia tried to help Donald Trump win, the office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the 17 agency-strong U.S. intelligence community, says there is a lack of conclusive evidence.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has also rejected the CIA's analysis. And the source of the hacked Democratic emails, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, has repeatedly denied that the emails were passed to his organization by Russia.
The spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, said it was "indecent" of the United States to "groundlessly" accuse Russia of the hacking.
He told the Russian news agency TASS, "They should either stop talking about that or produce some proof at last. Otherwise it all begins to look unseemly."
