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CIA: Russia Intervened to Help Get Trump Elected

CIA: Russia Intervened to Help Get Trump Elected
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'It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia's goal here was to favor one candidate over the other,' a senior US official told the Washington Post.

CIA: Russia Intervened to Help Get Trump Elected

The CIA concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the US electoral system, the Washington Post reported on Friday.

Citing US officials briefed on the matter, the Post said intelligence agencies identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including the chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, to WikiLeaks.

The officials described the individuals as people known to the intelligence community who were part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and reduce Clinton's chances of winning the election.

"It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia's goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected," the Post quoted a senior US official as saying. "That's the consensus view."

The Post further noted that the official had been briefed on an intelligence presentation made by the Central Intelligence Agency to key US senators behind closed-doors last week.

The CIA, in what the Post said was a secret assessment, cited a growing body of evidence from multiple sources. Briefers told the senators it was now "quite clear" that electing Trump was Russia's goal, the Post quoted officials as saying on condition of anonymity.

In October, the US government formally accused Russia of a campaign of cyber-attacks against Democratic Party organizations ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election.

President Barack Obama said he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin about consequences for the attacks. But Russian officials denied all accusations of interference in the US election.

A CIA spokeswoman said the agency had no comment on the report.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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