President Obama has asked U.S. intelligence officials to conduct a "full review" of cyberattacks that occurred during the 2016 presidential election and to deliver a report to him before he leaves office on Jan. 20, a senior White House official said Friday.

"We may have crossed into a new threshold and it is incumbent upon us to take stock of that, to review, to conduct some after-action, to understand what has happened and to impart some lessons learned," Lisa Monaco, senior adviser to the president on homeland security and counterterrorism, told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast.

"This is consistent with the work that we did over the summer to engage both the Congress on the threats that we received and state and local stakeholders in terms of providing them with tools to protect themselves," she added.

The purpose of the current review is to "capture lessons learned" from cybersecurity breaches and other hacking-related activities that took place during the election, Monaco said.

She declined to say whether the report would be made available to the public, but confirmed that the White House will share the findings with "a range of stakeholders," including lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

"[Obama] expects to get a report prior to leaving office" and will then determine whether to release the findings to the public, Monaco said.

Several top intelligence officials have accused the Russian government of meddling in U.S. political affairs by hacking the Democratic National Committee just before the party's nominating convention this past summer, a claim the incoming administration has repeatedly rejected.

News of Obama's request comes hours after leading Senate Republicans told the Washington Post they plan to launch a comprehensive investigation into Russia's cyber activities and alleged interference in the most recent presidential election.

"I'm going after Russia in every way you can go after Russia. I think they're one of the most destabilizing influences on the world stage. I think they did interfere with our elections, and I want Putin to personally pay the price," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told CNN earlier this week.

Graham is said to be working with Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., to prepare legislation and conduct investigative hearings on the matter when the next Congress convenes in January.