The administration of US President Barack Obama is trying to blame Russia for the “staggering loss” of the Democratic Party, which led to rise of Donald Trump in the US politics, an analyst says.
Late on Friday, the Washington Post quoted US intelligence officials as saying that they have identified “individuals with connections to the Russian government, who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including [Democratic nominee] Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.”
“There’s no hard evidence,” Dave Lindorff, an author and investigative journalist based in Philadelphia, told Press TV in a phone interview on Sunday.
The Post report prompted the president to order the CIA to launch an investigation into Russian attempts to manipulate the outcome of the 2016 vote.