White House press secretary Jen Psaki made a pretty striking admission on Friday.

Psaki was asked by Real Clear Politics‘s Philip Wegmann whether the president had been briefed on any intelligence suggesting that the DarkSide hacking group, which claimed responsibility for the recent Colonial Pipeline hack, causing significant disruption to East Coast gas supplies, operates under the indirect supervision of the Russian intelligence services.

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