Audrey Gavitt- Russia hacking

Summary-Washington Russian hackers breached accounts of GOP individuals and organizations prior to the election - including GOP House members, thought leaders and non-profits tied to the Republican party - a former senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation told CNN Monday. Since most of the GOP material was not released, whereas the emails of Democratic Party groups and officials were made public, the intelligence community has growing confidence that hacking of US entities was meant to steer the US election toward Trump. There is evidence that entities connected to the Russian government were bankrolling "Troll farms" that spread fake news about Clinton, according to the former official. McCain concerned about Russia hacking McCain concerned about Russia hacking09:21 All of these findings provide a greater understanding of what the intelligence community relied on to assess Russia's intentions. Even before the election, the US intelligence community was "Close" to assessing that Russia's intention was to aid Trump, rather than simply to disrupt the election process, the former senior law enforcement official said. There was disagreement - particularly between the intelligence agencies and the FBI - as to how certain this assessment was, multiple officials told CNN. The former senior law enforcement official made clear Monday that assessing the intentions of a foreign power is imprecise by its nature. A separate US official explained that the FBI is very conservative in its conclusions and typically doesn't give any definitive assessment if a conclusion can't be proven without a doubt.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/12/politics/gop-russia-hacking-trump/index.html

Analysis- This article was written By Jim Sciutto and Pamela Brown, and published by CNN on december 12th. I did a current event blog about the possibility and the speculations of Russia hacking the polls. States said they were going to take extra safe measures to make sure the votes were safe. But here we are a month after the election and investigations are under way about possible Russian hacking.