White House won’t point finger at Putin for email hacks

Published October 12, 2016 6:33pm ET



The White House’s top spokeswoman wouldn’t say Wednesday if he believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized the hacks into the emails of Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton campaign officials.

Press Secretary Josh Earnest said he couldn’t go beyond the intelligence community’s statement, which he said was carefully worded.

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