Obama: Russia is trying to influence the US presidential election

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US President Barack Obama did not rule out that Russia is trying to influence the course of presidential elections in the United States, and one of the methods of such influence are hacker attacks on US government bodies, as well as hacking personal accounts of American politicians.

So he commented on the FBI's investigation of the possible involvement of Russian hackers in the hacking of the email of the National Committee of the Democratic Party, writes CBS News.

“Everything is possible,” Obama said, answering the question whether Russia can influence the elections in the United States.

Recall, the site WikiLeaks has published approximately 19 content of thousands of e-mails in which the party leadership prefers Hillary Clinton in the fight for the party nomination for US presidency.

“I know that experts have established that the Russians are behind all this. We know for sure that the Russians are hacking our systems, not only government systems, but also private ones,” Obama said.

He added that he does not know the motives for the Russians to drain information, but still has some assumptions on this matter.

“I can’t say exactly the motives for the leak. But I do know that Donald Trump has admired Vladimir Putin many times. And I think Trump's activities are being reported quite favorably in Russia,” Obama said.

In turn, the American intelligence services reported to the White House that they have “reliable data” indicating that the Russian authorities were involved in the leak of letters and documents of the Democratic Party, reports The New York Times.

At the same time, the security services clarified that they are not sure whether computer hacking is a routine cyber espionage procedure that most countries, including the United States, carry out around the world, or is part of a plan to influence the presidential election campaign in the United States.

The letters were published on WikiLeaks, but some materials were posted on several other resources even before they were published on this site, and the hacker under the nickname Guccifer 2.0 took responsibility for the hacking. American intelligence officers believe that he is an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency of Russia.

US Secretary of State John Kerry raised the issue of this hacker attack in an interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on July 26 at a meeting in Vientiane. However, Lavrov rejected assumptions about the involvement in the hacking of the Russian special services, saying that he "has no censorship words" to comment on this, writes CBS News.

From the comment on this topic could not resist the US presidential candidate from the Republican Party, Donald Trump, urging Russia to find 30 thousands of letters, which, according to the billionaire, are not enough in the merged information.

“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you can find another 30 letters that are missing,” Trump said at a press conference in Florida, adding that American journalists will fully reward Russian intelligence services for this work, he writes. CNN.

He clarified that if Russia, any other country or individual finds 33 thousands of illegally deleted Hillary Clinton letters, the FBI will be very interested in this information.

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