Confident Russia Hacked US: Full Senate Intelligence Hearing

Top U.S. intelligence officials said Thursday the public will soon learn more about how and why the Russian government carried out an unprecedented campaign to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election by hacking political institutions and individuals. “There is actually more than one motive” behind the purported Russian operation, James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the first public hearing about the suspected hacking. “I don’t think we’ve ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process than we’ve seen in this case,” Mr. Clapper said. He added that his confidence about Russian involvement in the attacks was even higher than when the intelligence community issued a joint statement in October saying that senior-most officials of the Russian government had ordered the hacks to “interfere” with the election.