FBI and NSA Had Low Confidence That Russia Leaked DNC Emails

The assessment was scrapped after the agencies dissented, but the Obama administration proceeded to accuse Moscow.
FBI and NSA Had Low Confidence That Russia Leaked DNC Emails
James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Michael Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency, arrive for a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing concerning Russian meddling in the 2016 United States election, on Capitol Hill, March 20, 2017. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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The FBI and the National Security Agency, in the heat of the 2016 election, dissented from an intelligence community assessment that Russia was behind the leak of more than 19,000 emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

The FBI and NSA instead had “low confidence” in the attribution to Russia, according to a Sept. 12, 2016, intelligence community assessment released to the public for the first time on July 18 as part of a batch of records declassified by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
Ivan Pentchoukov
Ivan Pentchoukov
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Ivan is the national editor of The Epoch Times. He has reported for The Epoch Times on a variety of topics since 2011.
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