Trump rejects CIA conclusion Russia intervened in US election
Washington — US president-elect Donald Trump’s rejection this weekend of US intelligence analysts’ conclusion that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help him win the White House is the latest in a string of conflicts between Trump and the intelligence community he will command. Most of them involve Russia, which has grown increasingly aggressive — according to what US intelligence agencies have told Congress and the administration of President Barack Obama — in Syria and Ukraine. The agencies also reported that Russia had ratcheted up activities in cyberspace including meddling, sometimes covertly, in European (German) and US elections. The intelligence agencies have concluded with "high confidence" that not only did their Russian counterparts direct the hacking of Democratic Party organisations and leaders, but they did so to undermine Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, not just to shake confidence in the US electoral system, a senior US official said on Friday. The pres...
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