Hillary Clinton said definitively on Sunday that Russian intelligence was behind the recent hacking of the Democratic National Committee, which resulted in the leak of thousands of internal emails and voicemails that party officials had exchanged.
“We know that Russian intelligence services hacked into the DNC, and we know that they arranged for a lot of those emails to be released, and we know that Donald Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin, to support Putin,” the Democratic presidential nominee said in an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace.
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FBI officials and cybersecurity experts investigating the hack suspect Russia was behind it, but the U.S. has yet to publicly accuse Russia of breaching the DNC’s email servers and making the internal emails public on the weekend before Democrats held their nominating convention in Philadelphia.
“For Trump to both encourage that and to praise Putin despite what appears to be a deliberate effort to try to affect the election, I think, raises national security issues,” she said.
“I think laying out the facts raises serious issues about Russian interference in our elections, in our democracy,” Clinton told Wallace.
During a press conference last week, Trump suggested Russian hackers should help locate the thousands of emails Clinton failed to turn over to the FBI from her tenure as secretary of state.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” the Republican presidential nominee told reporters. He later said it was a tongue-in-cheek comment.
