"When you talk about bias, there has never been bias like that." "In all fairness to the IG report, it was an unbelievable report, except at the end where they tried to be politically correct," Trump said. Nor did it say key players in the investigation - Comey, Strzok, Page, and several others - were politically motivated in their work. The report did not conclude, however, that the FBI's decision not to recommend Clinton be prosecuted was wrong. The lengthy document concluded former FBI Director James Comey was "insubordinate" and some members of the investigatory team - including FBI agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page - showed hostility toward Trump in digital communications. Meanwhile, Michael Horowitz - the Department of Justice's inspector general - released a report last month about the FBI's investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Trump said the FBI arrived at a DNC office one day in 2016 after it was alerted about the email theft, but Clinton campaign manager "John Podesta threw them out of the office and said, 'get out of here.'" "The answer is absolutely it is possible and maybe at some point it will be done," Trump said in regard to whether he will order the FBI to seize and look at the server. Part of that election interference purportedly involved Russians hacking into a DNC server and stealing emails during the campaign, but the FBI has never been given access to the server. intelligence community's assessment Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. Trump spoke with Fox News' Tucker Carlson after his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, and covered a variety of issues, including the U.S. The White House has said it will make public as much as it can.President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has the authority to order the FBI to examine a hacked Democratic National Committee Server at the center of Russian election meddling, and added the inspector general report on the bureau's Hillary Clinton probe had a "politically correct" conclusion. The intelligence community is reportedly delivering its final, classified assessment of the campaign to President Obama on Thursday, which the White House has said it will provide to lawmakers as soon as possible.īut it remains unknown how much of that document will be declassified and released to the public. That evidence is very strong, outside experts say.Īnd Russia is widely known to conduct the kind of “active measures” the administration has accused it of using in this case. Security experts widely derided a joint Homeland Security-FBI report released last week that purported to give technical indicators linking Russia to the breaches, calling it overly broad and “a mess.”ĬrowdStrike has gone much further in its published forensics analysis. The White House has been under fierce pressure to provide a public account of the intelligence community's assessment. Trump noted in a tweet that Assange has asserted that the emails did not come from Russia, while repeating that anyone could have hacked the DNC. He also appeared to side with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who released emails believed to have been hacked by Russia, over U.S.
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In a series of tweets this week, he accused intelligence officials of delaying a briefing until Friday in order to build a case against Russia - an allegation denied by other officials. 6 committee subpoena Overnight Defense & National Security - Pentagon tells Russia to stand down Billionaire GOP donor maxed out to Manchin following his Build Back Better opposition MORE has repeatedly rejected that assessment, characterizing it as an attempt by the Obama administration to undermine his presidency. election, and officials have said they are “100 percent certain” that Russia is the culprit.īut President-elect Donald Trump Donald Trump Former chairman of Wisconsin GOP party signals he will comply with Jan. The Obama administration has characterized the hacks as an attempt to interfere in the U.S. The report comes as controversy continues to surround the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia was behind the cyberattack on the DNC and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Let's 'reimagine' political corruption The Armageddon elections to come Poll: Trump leads 2024 Republican field with DeSantis in distant second MORE campaign chairman John Podesta’s personal email account. There’s no reason to believe that anything that they have concluded is not accurate,” the intelligence official told BuzzFeed. Instead, the official said, the bureau and other agencies have relied on analysis done by the third-party security firm CrowdStrike, which investigated the breach for the DNC.
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