US intelligence chiefs said Thursday that they believe Russia’s top leadership was behind the hacking and leaking of Democratic party documents in the US presidential election.
« We assess that only Russia’s senior-most officials could have authorized the recent election-focused data thefts and disclosures, » three spy chiefs said in a joint statement to a Senate hearing.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, National Security Agency chief Michael Rogers and Marcel Lettre, undersecretary of defense for intelligence, were testifying.
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