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| Barack Obama orders 'full review' into claims election was hacked by Russia | Barack Obama orders 'full review' into claims election was hacked by Russia |
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| President Barack Obama ordered a "full review" of election-related hacking that many believe effected the outcome of the 2016 election. | President Barack Obama ordered a "full review" of election-related hacking that many believe effected the outcome of the 2016 election. |
| "We may have crossed into a new threshold and it is incumbent upon us to take stock of that, to review, to conduct some after-action, to understand what has happened and to impart some lessons learned," said Lisa Monaco, Mr Obama's counterterrorism and homeland security adviser. | "We may have crossed into a new threshold and it is incumbent upon us to take stock of that, to review, to conduct some after-action, to understand what has happened and to impart some lessons learned," said Lisa Monaco, Mr Obama's counterterrorism and homeland security adviser. |
| The Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence officially accused Russia of hacking the Democratic National Committee and other political organisations "intended to interfere with the US election process". | |
| Intelligence officials reiterated their accusation earlier this week. | |
| "The US Intelligence Community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations," officials said in a statement to NBC. "We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities." | |
| Senior Democratic leaders have called on Mr Obama to declassify more information surrounding the alleged hacks by Russian intelligence. | |
| "We believe there is additional information concerning the Russian Government and the US election that should be declassified and released to the public," members of the Senate Intelligence Committee said in a short letter to the President last month. "We are conveying specifics through classified channel." | |
| President-elect Donald Trump remained sceptical of the Intelligence community's findings. He denied their claims that the election had been tampered with in an interview with Time magazine, which named him "Person of the Year" this week. | |
| "I don't believe it. I don't believe they interfered," Mr Trump said, confirming that he thought the conclusions reached by the Obama-appointed officials were politically driven. |