Kellyanne Conway on Friday was critical of the fact that some of the intelligence report on Russian hacking has leaked before President-elect Trump has been briefed on it, and she questioned why President Obama imposed new sanctions against Russia before he received the official report from the intelligence community about its interference in the U. S. election.
\u201cWhat\u2019s disappointing is having leaks in the media before we actually have a report on the alleged hacking. And it\u2019s been very confounding to us, and certainly to the president-elect, why this report, if it wasn\u2019t prepared until yesterday, why operatives were expelled, why punishment preceded actually conclusions,\u201d the adviser to President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview on \u201cCBS This Morning.\u201d
\u201cWhy last week did the president expel these operatives?\u201d she added. \u201cWhy for weeks have the Clintons — Team Clinton — been grasping at anything they can to explain her disastrous loss?\u201d
However, the intelligence community arrived at its assessment about Russia\u2019s meddling weeks ago , and this report will only make official what has been known for some time. As early as October , the U. S. intelligence community was confident the Russian government had directed hacks to influence the presidential election.
Mr. Trump will be briefed Friday by the directors of national intelligence, the FBI, NSA and CIA on a comprehensive report by the intelligence community about Russian cyberattacks during the election.
On CBS, Conway emphasized that Mr. Trump and his administration \u201care against foreign interference from any government.\u201d Asked what action he would take if the report shows evidence of that, Conway said she didn\u2019t want to speculate before the briefing.
\u201cI don\u2019t want to do what others have done which is pre-suppose a result and a conclusion and then the action. But respect him in this way, he\u2019ll get the information, then he\u2019ll take action,\u201d she said.
This comes after Mr. Trump posted a series of tweets late Thursday still questioning the assessment of the intelligence community.
How did NBC get \u00ab\u00a0an exclusive look into the top secret report he (Obama) was presented? \u00a0\u00bb Who gave them this report and why? Politics!
The Democratic National Committee would not allow the FBI to study or see its computer info after it was supposedly hacked by Russia……
So how and why are they so sure about hacking if they never even requested an examination of the computer servers? What is going on?<\/p>\n

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