US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has doubled down on the claim that Russia was behind the recent hacking attack against the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
“We know that Russian intelligence services hacked into the DNC,” Clinton said, in her first interview with Fox News in more than five years.
On July 22, the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks published thousands of hacked emails obtained from the DNC’s servers, exposing an insider effort by DNC officials in favor of Clinton to undermine US Senator Bernie Sanders’ bid for the White House.
American intelligence agencies say they have “high confidence” that the Russian government was behind the hack.
Clinton repeated the allegation in the interview, implying that there was connection between the attack and what she called Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We know that they [Russians] arranged for a lot of…