

The named defendants are specifically alleged to have taken part in a sustained effort to hack into the networks of the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the campaign of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.In an excerpt from an interview with Trump with CBS News' Jeff Glor, the president said the DNC was to blame for the hacking."I heard that they were trying or people were trying to hack into the RNC too, the Republican National Committee, but we had much better defenses. The indictment alleges that the dozen Russians worked in the GRU, Russia's intelligence body. The Russians took our emails, took our data and they could still use that information to try to sow discord and to try to damage our democratic institutions."Reality check: The assertion that the DNC's hacked server is in Ukraine is part of an easily debunked right-wing conspiracy theory that alleges that CrowdStrike, the first firm to publicly release evidence that Russia perpetrated the DNC hack, made up information to fuel the Russia investigation.The hacked server was last photographed in the basement of the DNC’s Washington headquarters near a file cabinet dating from the 1972 break-in of the DNC headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.The special counsel Robert Mueller filed an indictment Friday charging 12 Russian intelligence officers with conspiring to interfere in the 2016 U.S. "The president needs to acknowledge this and realize that he needs to protect and defend our democracy. If you decide to try Google Public DNS, your client programs will perform all DNS lookups using Google Public DNS."The most important thing now is that we know there are several witches, not some 400-pound guy sitting on the bed," Brazile added. Or, read our configuration instructions (IPv6 addresses supported too).
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And the media played it up. "They had bad defenses and they were able to be hacked.""President Trump this morning said that the Democratic party should be ashamed of itself," Brazile responded on "This Week." "Well, my response to the president is that there was no way we could go to Staples or Best Buy or Office Depot or OfficeMax to buy anti-GRU military intelligence software to protect and defend ourselves."Brazile also faulted the media for their reporting on the hacked emails from a "corrupted source," saying the coverage "blew it out of proportion.""What WikiLeaks did once they received the information is they used it strategically each day to shape the political narrative. We had much better defenses so they couldn't," said Trump, who later conceded he "may be wrong" about Republican servers having better defense mechanisms in place."I think the DNC should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked," Trump added.
Donna is right, people were put at risk here in a way, because of the way this was played that was irresponsible.""You had to know they didn't have all of her emails. Chris Christie, who headed Trump's transition team in the final months of the campaign, agreed with Brazile's criticism of the media's role."We live in a media culture today that only cares about getting whatever is new first," Christie said on "This Week." "And the idea of what damage that may cause or not cause becomes a secondary or even tertiary concern. Putin was trying to do in our election," Brazile added.ABC News contributor and former New Jersey Gov.
"And you can't assess the credibility of somebody who is just part of a story, but the media banged her and a lot of other people in the Clinton campaign unfairly.
