Senate Staffers to Assess Intel Community’s Russian Hacking Report

Nextgov: Senate Intelligence Committee staffers will review and vet the classified sources underpinning intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a massive hacking operation to destabilize the 2016 presidential election, Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., said Tuesday.

The review will boost the legitimacy of those agencies’ conclusions but may be insufficient for some critics, including several advisers to President-elect Donald Trump, who say the intelligence community should release additional evidence to back up its findings.

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