Bipartisan committee confirms that Putin ordered 2016 hack of Democrats’ campaign
The committee did not find evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians directly, but campaign chair Paul Manafort’s presence on the team was a ‘grave counterintelligence threat’
Washington — Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the 2016 hacking of Democratic Party accounts and the release of e-mails intended to harm Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the US senate intelligence committee concluded in the final report of its Russia probe, which also found that President Donald Trump didn’t collude with Moscow.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian effort to hack computer networks and accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party and leak information damaging to Hillary Clinton and her campaign for president,” the bipartisan panel wrote in the report, which was released on Tuesday...
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