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Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered ... . The first page of the Joint Analysis Report narrative by the Department of Homeland Security and federal Bureau of Investigation and released on Dec. 29, 2016, is photographed in Washington, Jan. 6, 2017.
WASHINGTON Brushing aside Donald Trump's dismissiveness, the nation's intelligence chief insisted Thursday that U.S. agencies are more confident than ever that Russia interfered in America's recent presidential election.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listens at left as National Security Agency and Cyber Command chief Adm. Michael Rogers testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing: "Foreign Cyber Threats to the United States."
The Latest on accusations that Russia meddled in America's presidential election to help Donald Trump win : The White House says President Barack Obama is being briefed on a classified report about Russian and other foreign meddling in U.S. elections. Earnest says Obama has asked intelligence officials to also brief members of Congress and the incoming president.
Clapper is among top U.S. intelligence officials set to testify on Jan. 5, 2017, at a Senate hear... WASHINGTON - The Latest on accusations that Russia meddled in America's presidential election to help Donald Trump win : The Director of National Intelligence says he won't discuss details about the Obama administration's comprehensive report on Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election early next week. James Clapper said Thursday at a hearing on foreign cyber threats to the U.S. that he understands there is enormous public interest in the report's conclusions but said he won't be discussing them.
The Latest on accusations that Russia meddled in America's presidential election to help Donald Trump win : U.S. intelligence officials have delivered the classified report on Russian and other foreign meddling in American elections to the White House.
In this Dec. 28, 2016 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump challenges U.S. intelligence agencies to provide decisive evidence of Russian involvement in election-season hacking.
Senior intelligence officials will testify this morning before the Senate Armed Services Committee about foreign cyberthreats to the U.S. Much of the testimony is likely to focus on what role Russia had in the U.S. election. U.S. intelligence officials say Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee and others in an attempt, they say, to influence the U.S. presidential election.
Lawmakers and senior US intelligence officials are drawing a line in the sand for President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday, presenting a united front before Congress on their conclusion that Russia is a major threat to the United States and was behind election hacking -- a conclusion Trump has refused to accept. "We assess that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized the recent election-focused data thefts and disclosures, based on the scope and sensitivity of the targets," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Marcel Lettre and the Commander of US Cyber Command, Michael Rogers, said in a joint statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain has scheduled a hearing for Thursday on foreign cyber threats to the United States, including the Russian hacking in the 2016 US presidential election, a committee aide told CNN. McCain has invited James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Mike Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency, and Marcel Lettre, the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, according to the aide.
Sen. John McCain , R-Ariz., on Sunday again decried Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 presidential race and called for a select Senate committee to investigate the country's cyber activities during the election. On CNN's "State of the Union," McCain told host Jake Tapper that there was "no doubt" Russia interfered with the election.
This week we saw the shocking spectacle of our president-elect parroting Vladimir Putin's propaganda line and attempting to discredit the unanimous view of our intelligence agencies that Russia sought to meddle in our presidential election. On Friday the intelligence community had enough.
Washington, Dec 17 : Major US intelligence leaders have expressed support for an assessment by the Central Intelligence Agency that Russia intervened in the November 8 election to help Donald Trump win the White House, the media reported on Saturday. [NK US] CIA Director John Brennan said he met Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation James Comey and Director of the National Intelligence James Clapper earlier this week, and "there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in our presidential election".
House intel committee chair: if top spies won't come to us, we'll vist them Chairman Devin Nunes said panel members will visit the CIA, FBI, and NSA next month. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2hXOHpp This Aug. 14, 2008, file photo shows a man crossing the CIA logo in the lobby of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va.
Well, here's another "people have said" update regarding Russia's allegedly hacking our election to help Trump. There's still a lot of rumor, speculation, and unsubstantiated reports about Russia's role in the 2016 election because no one has gone on the record.
Adm. Michael Rogers, who heads both the National Security Agency and US Cyber Command, has been criticized for failing to thwart major security breaches since his appointment in 2014. National Security Agency director Adm.
The GOP chairman of a top committee in Congress is asking the nation's intelligence chief and defense secretary to appear and answer questions about reports that they recommended the ouster of the director of the National Security Agency. House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes of California said late Saturday that he sent a letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter and National Intelligence Director James Clapper asking them to appear before his committee to "discuss the veracity of press reports" they recommended the removal of Adm.
A powerful California congressman of Portuguese descent has pushed for years for the installation of a costly U.S. intelligence facility in the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic. On Thursday, Rep. Devin Nunes of Visalia, the Republican chair of the House intelligence committee, kept at his campaign, confronting two senior Pentagon officials and the top U.S. intelligence chief over why they favored a site in England.
America's intelligence chief on Wednesday said Russia hacks US computer networks "all the time," while also seeking to reassure the public the transition to a new president would "be OK." US agencies, companies and individuals are frequently targeted by overseas hackers, and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign has accused Moscow of hacking into Democratic National Committee emails.
Washington: US intelligence and law enforcement agencies are probing what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in US political institutions, intelligence and congressional officials said. The FBI is investigating how thousands of Democratic National Committee emails were hacked, a breach that Hillary Clinton's campaign maintains was committed by Russia to benefit Donald Trump.