Intelligence Report On Election Hacking Says Russia Plans To Do More
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Intelligence Report On Election Hacking Says Russia Plans To Do More
By DEB RIECHMANN, EILEEN SULLIVAN and JULIE PACE
Published January 7, 2017, 9:11 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) The new, declassified report on Russian efforts to influence the presidential election has a
troublesome prediction: Russia isn't done intruding in U.S. politics and policymaking.
Immediately after Election Day, Russia began a "spear-phishing" campaign to try to trick people into revealing their email passwords, targeting U.S. government employees and think tanks that specialize in national security, defense and foreign policy, the report released on Friday said.
"This campaign could provide material for future influence efforts as well as foreign intelligence collection on the incoming administration's goals and plans," the report said.
That could prove awkward for President-elect Donald Trump. The president-elect wants to warm relations with Russia and has repeatedly denounced the intelligence community's assessment that the Kremlin interfered in the election. The new report goes even further by explicitly tying Russian President Vladimir Putin to the meddling and saying Russia had a "clear preference" for Trump in his race against Hillary Clinton.
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