Briefing: What to Read on the Russian Hacking Story
Few people now doubt that Russian hackers were behind the release of private emails from Democratic power-brokers, following the New York Times’s exhaustive investigation into the issue.
A subsequent Times article detailed how material stolen from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was used to undermine the party’s candidates for House seats, especially in Florida.
The Wall Street reported that Russian hackers tried and failed to penetrate the computer networks of the Republican National Committee.
While analysts believe that Russians were behind the hacking, there was some uncertainty about whether the FBI shared a CIA assessment that their goal was to tilt the election to Donald J. Trump.
Less is known about the hackers themselves, though BuzzFeed’s deep-dive investigation fills in some of the holes.
The purloined letters are still available from WikiLeaks, which has searchable databases for the DNC emails and the John Podesta Emails. Significantly, perhaps, WikiLeaks' founder, Julian Assange, maintains that he did not receive the material from the Russians.
