US intelligence officials believe Russian President Vladimir Putin was most likely directly involved in the hacking campaign that targeted Democratic Party officials and organizations during the US presidential election, NBC News reportedTuesday.
Two of the unnamed intelligence officials cited by NBC News pointed to new evidence they say shows Putin directed the distribution of hacked emails and information from the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
WikiLeaks regularly published leaked documents in the weeks leading up to Election Day. WikiLeaks and other organizations also published other communications embarrassing to Democrats and Clinton at various points during the campaign.
Putin’s goal, according to NBC News’ sources, was to undermine and discredit America as a global leader and hurt Clinton.
The Russian president sought to “make us weaker in terms of leading the liberal Democratic order,” Michael McFaul, the ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, told NBC News.
“And most certainly he likes President-elect Trump’s views on Russia,” he added.
Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, dismissed the report on Thursday as “laughable nonsense.”

Read Next: Obama spends final press conference of 2016 warning Putin and Russia: 'We can do stuff to you'
Last week, The Washington Post and The New York Times reported findings from the CIA that suggested Russia tried to help Trump win the election through its hacking of Democratic Party organizations. The Republican Party was also hacked, those reports said, but no information was leaked. The RNC has denied it was hacked.
Read the whole story on Business Insider.
Featured image courtesy of AP.
Just a little behind the scenes info on Business Insider. First of all, 97% of it is owned by the German corporation, Alex Springer SE as of Sept. 2015. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
Also, Alex Springer SE was represented at the Bilderberg meeting by it's CEO Mathias Dopfner. At that meeting, Hillary Clinton was chosen as the choice of winner in the US Presidential election. See: http://www.dcclothesline.co...
If you are wondering why there have been so many anti-Trump statements as well as comments that Putin appears to have caused Trump to win coming from the Business Insider...that appears to be the reason. Trump (and the Russians?) not only screwed up Clinton's hopes for the presidency but also that of the Bilderberg Group and the CEO of the owner of the Business Insider. Just a little bias there. lol