More authentic than we thought

Russia has intervened in the US presidential election to help Donald Trump win. This is stated in the secret report of the Central Intelligence Department, reports The Washington Post with reference to sources in government circles.

The CIA revealed a number of persons related to the Russian authorities who provided Wikileaks with thousands of letters from the hacked mail of the National Committee of the Democratic Party, including candidate Hillary Clinton, sources of the publication said. These persons are already known to American intelligence as participants in a wider Russian operation to strengthen Trump's positions and weaken Clinton.

“According to the intelligence community, the goal of Russia was to support one of the candidates, to help Trump win,” a senior American official told the publication. “This is a common opinion.” Earlier, the US authorities believed that the purpose of cyber attacks was to discredit the most elected process.

On Friday, the deputy spokesman of the White House Eric Schulz said at a daily briefing that President Barack Obama ordered special forces to investigate cyber attacks and foreign interference in the US election campaign since 2008. According to Schulz, the report should be presented to the president and Congress before Obama leaves his post on January 20. The government will try to make a report open to the public “as much as possible,” the representative of the White House said. However, the document may contain classified information that is not subject to publication.

Schulz emphasized that in October, the American intelligence services concluded with a “high degree of confidence” that Russia was involved in a series of cyber attacks against the structures of the Democratic Party on the eve of the presidential election. There is reason to believe that these attacks were authorized "at the highest level of Russian leadership."

On October 7, the American authorities directly accused Moscow of holding a large -scale campaign in order to influence the 2016 elections, including by hacker attacks on computers of the National Committee of the Democratic Party, as well as a number of politicians.

On October 11, the White House spokesman Josh Ernest said that Obama would consider a number of measures in response to hacking government sites. On the 15th, US Vice-President Joe Biden also assured that Russian cyber attacks would not remain unanswered .

On November 5, NBC reported that American "military hackers" gained access to the Russian energy system , telecommunication networks and "Kremlin command systems", making them vulnerable to cyber attacks. The blow, claimed, will be delivered only in the case if the US computers are subjected to a "serious attack".

On November 16, Senator-Republican Lindsay Graham announced the need to hold in the upper house a hearing about the possible involvement of Vladimir Putin in the intervention of the American elections. “We cannot stay away,” the senator emphasized. The next day, the Democrat Senator Ben Cardin, the author of the Magnitsky Law, said that he had prepared a “comprehensive” bill on retaliatory measures in connection with the actions of the Kremlin in Europe and Syria, as well as with Russian cyber attacks on the US election system. “Whether you are attacking in an instant or (computer) mouse,” Cardin also remarked, “this is still an attack. It requires an answer. It is obviously that they are responsible for cyber attacks on our country during the last elections.”