Obama Says He Told Putin to 'Cut It Out' on Hacking

President Obama tried on Friday to stop short of saying Vladimir Putin was responsible for Russian hacking into Democratic party political data, but he dropped multiple hints—his own spokesman may have called them “not particularly subtle” ones—that the American adversary was behind the activity.

During a year-end news conference in the White House briefing room, Obama recalled a September encounter with his Russian counterpart at the G20 summit when he told Putin to not meddle further with U.S. political affairs.