Evidence is mounting that Russian hackers may have influenced the U.S. presidential election.
The CIA has amassed evidence that these Russian-based hackers compromised databases at the Democratic and Republican National Committees, and also obtained and leaked emails between candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager, John Podesta. These emails were the impetus for FBI Director John Comey to write a letter to Congress publicly demanding further investigation of Clinton, on the eve of the election. According to pollsters such as Nate Silver, Comey’s request for further investigation (which led to no new discoveries) took a significant chunk out of Clinton’s lead …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
