Trump is wrong on Russian hackers; U.S. does have an ‘idea’

“She has no idea whether it is Russia, China or anybody else.” — Donald Trump

“I am not quoting myself. I am quoting 17, 17 — do you doubt?” — Hillary Clinton

“Our country has no idea.” — Donald Trump

The U.S. government has actually been quite clear it does have an idea who’s been hacking to meddle in the presidential election: Russia.

In a joint statement earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence took the unprecedented step of stating that U.S. intelligence was “confident that the Russian government directed the recent compromises of emails” from both individuals and institutions, including the Democratic National Committee.

The Obama administration had been pressured for months to make such a statement, which had already been outlined by several private cybersecurity firms that had studied the breaches and fingered the Kremlin.