Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff are calling on the Obama administration to release and declassify any intelligence that has been gathered about the hack against the Democratic National Committee.
In a letter to President Obama, the California Democrats said the leak of over 20,000 DNC emails “was clearly intended to undermine the Democratic Party and the presidential campaign of Secretary Hillary Clinton, and disrupt the Democratic Party’s convention in Philadelphia.”
The DNC acknowledged and reported in June that their servers had been hacked by two groups working for Russia.
“If true, and if Russia made the material available to WikiLeaks for release, then the episode would represent an unprecedented attempt to meddle in American domestic politics — one that would demand a response by the United States,” they wrote.
Feinstein and Schiff believe that since the hack may have been “a state-sponsored attempt to manipulate our presidential election,” it should be met with a “heightened measure of transparency.”
They are specifically looking for information that “might illuminate potential Russian motivations” and answers about “why President Putin could potentially feel compelled to authorize such an operation, given the high likelihood of eventual attribution.”
