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Taking Aim at Trump, Leaders Strongly Affirm Findings on Russian Hacking
By MATT FLEGENHEIMER and SCOTT SHANEJAN. 5, 2017
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WASHINGTON — Rebuffing efforts by President-elect Donald J. Trump
to cast doubt on Russian interference in the presidential election, top
intelligence officials and senators from both parties on Thursday
issued a forceful affirmation of the findings. They took relentless aim
at Mr. Trump’s public skepticism and suggested he had negatively
affected morale in the intelligence community. “There’s a difference between skepticism and disparagement,” James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, said at the hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Mr.
Clapper added that “our assessment now is even more resolute” that the
Russians carried out the attack on the election. President Obama
received a classified briefing on the intelligence community’s findings
today, followed by one for Mr. Trump on Friday. An unclassified report
will be released to the public next week. The
hacking was only one part of the Russian endeavor, which also included
the dissemination of “classical propaganda, disinformation, fake news,”
Mr. Clapper said.
The
gathering was extraordinary as much for its context as its content — a
public, bipartisan display of support for the intelligence community
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Though
Mr. Clapper and most Republican senators were careful to avoid
antagonizing the president-elect directly, the hearing spoke to the
searing rift Mr. Trump has threatened to create between the incoming
administration and the intelligence officials tasked with informing it.
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Senator
John McCain, Republican of Arizona and chairman of the committee, said
the purpose of the gathering was “not to question the outcome of the
presidential election” but to move forward with a full understanding of
what had happened. Repeatedly, though, Mr. McCain and his colleagues seemed to undercut Mr. Trump’s past messages of support for Russia and Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, whom Mr. Trump has appeared to defend. “Do you think there’s any credibility we should attach to this individual?” Mr. McCain asked. “Not
in my view,” Mr. Clapper said. Another witness at the hearing, Adm.
Michael S. Rogers, a leader of the National Security Agency and United
States Cyber Command, said he agreed. Later, as if concerned the point had not been duly made, Mr. McCain asked Mr. Clapper again to describe his view of Mr. Assange. Mr.
Clapper noted that Mr. Assange had been “holed up in the Ecuadorean
embassy in London” to avoid a Swedish arrest warrant on allegations of
sexual assault. WikiLeaks’ revelations, Mr. Clapper said, had sometimes
put Americans at risk. “So I don’t think those of us in the intelligence
community have a whole lot of respect for him.” In
Twitter messages on Thursday before the hearing — one day after sharing
with his followers remarks from Mr. Assange, who has dismissed the
intelligence findings — Mr. Trump accused the “dishonest media” of
concluding that the two men agreed.
The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.
A Times investigation
reveals missed signals, slow responses and a continuing underestimation
of the seriousness of a campaign to disrupt the 2016 presidential
election.
“I
simply state what he states,” Mr. Trump wrote, “it is for the people to
make up their own minds as to the truth. The media lies to make it look
like I am against ‘Intelligence’ when in fact I am a big fan!”
Mr.
Clapper, while withholding revelations about the Russian attack ahead
of next week’s release, did promise to “push the envelope” in
declassifying as much detail as possible, including the motive of
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in carrying it out. “We’ll be as
forthcoming as we can, but there are some fragile and sensitive sources
and methods here,” he said. He
said he welcomed skeptical questioning from Mr. Trump, allowing that
the intelligence community was “not perfect.” But Mr. Clapper spoke
sternly of the wall of stars in the C.I.A.
lobby, commemorating the deaths of agency officers on duty, and said
the agencies’ efforts to keep the country safe were not always
appreciated. Democrats
on the committee repeatedly coaxed intelligence leaders to underscore
the contrast between their view that the Russian government was behind
the hacking and Mr. Trump’s multiple assertions that a random individual
hacker might be to blame. Senator
Joe Donnelly, Democrat of Indiana, told Mr. Clapper that in the
conflict between the intelligence agencies and Mr. Assange over Russian
responsibility for the attack, “We’re on your side every time.” He asked
Mr. Clapper to convey his level of confidence in attributing the
election attack to Russia, rather than “someone in his basement.” “It’s, uh, very high,” the laconic intelligence director replied. At
one point, Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, wondered
aloud “who benefits from a president-elect trashing the intelligence
community.”
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