As President-elect Donald Trump continues to express doubts about the intelligence community’s assertion that Russia hacked Democratic Party servers to influence the 2016 election, intelligence officials are standing by their findings.
At a Jan. 5 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing focused on foreign cyber threats to the United States, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told senators he stands “more resolutely” on his Oct. 7 joint statement with the secretary of Homeland Security that said Russia hacked Democratic Party servers and emails.
