‘Is This a Joke?’: US Media Not Getting Behind Clinton’s Russian Hacker Story
SputnikNews.com
30.07.2016
The failure of the US authorities to present any proof to back its claims of Russia’s involvement in hacking the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has caused an uproar in the US media, while America’s top spy calls on the nation to stop blaming Russia.
Americans need to calm down and stop blaming Russia for hacking the Democratic National Committee, Director of the US National Intelligence James Clapper said on Thursday.
“I’m somewhat taken aback by the hyperventilation on this,” the US media quotes Clapper as saying at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.
“I’m shocked someone did some hacking,” he added sarcastically. “[As if] That’s never happened before.”
When asked if analysts in the media and elsewhere were getting ahead of the facts when it came to attributing the attack, Clapper said:
“Yes … We don’t know enough to ascribe motivation regardless of who it might have been.”
Meanwhile the US-based website reporting on the US politics and current affairs was more vocally critical of the attempts to put the blame on Russia.
“A flood light suddenly shines on your party apparatus, revealing its grossly corrupt machinations to fix the primary process and sink the Sanders campaign, and within a day you are on about the evil Russians having hacked into your computers to sabotage our elections — on behalf of Donald Trump, no less?” reads article of Salon’s foreign affairs columnist Patrick Lawrence.
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