Former CIA Director, Other Republican Former Officials Urge Congress to Investigate DNC Hack
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden and George W. Bush administration Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams are among 28 former officials from Republican presidential administrations who jointly urged congressional leaders Friday to formally investigate the hacking of Democratic National Committee…
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servers. The attacks are “an assault on the integrity of the entire American political process” and “not a partisan issue,” the Republicans said in a letter. The DNC hack and Wikileaks' subsequent publication of emails stolen during the hack are viewed as possibly spurring a more serious discussion about foreign cyber espionage during the presidential campaign (see 1607270061). “Congress has a responsibility to get to the bottom of this extraordinary breach, not only to determine who was responsible but also to consider the appropriate response,” Abrams and the others said in the letter. “The hacking of a political party’s email system by Russian intelligence agencies would, if proven, constitute unprecedented foreign interference in an American presidential campaign.”