Mr. Coats better start polishing up his resume. 
"The highest-ranking intelligence official in Donald Trump's administration disagrees with him: There's no doubt that Russia was behind the series of hacks and leaks against Democrats that helped get Trump elected, he said.
In the first annual report to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Trump-appointed Dan Coats, the new Director of National Intelligence, declared Thursday that "only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized the 2016 U.S. election-focused data thefts and disclosures, based on the scope and sensitivity of the targets."
That's a direct contradiction of a curious stance Trump himself has largely maintained since before he was even elected: that it's impossible to know the culprit of the Democratic hacks really was. Less than two weeks before the report, Trump reiterated that claim, this time indicating the culprit could have been China. He also claimed that "If you don't catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it's very hard to say who did the hacking," a sentiment that cybersecurity professionals strongly disagree with."
https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...fficial-russia-hacked-the-democrats/22082440/
"The highest-ranking intelligence official in Donald Trump's administration disagrees with him: There's no doubt that Russia was behind the series of hacks and leaks against Democrats that helped get Trump elected, he said.
In the first annual report to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Trump-appointed Dan Coats, the new Director of National Intelligence, declared Thursday that "only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized the 2016 U.S. election-focused data thefts and disclosures, based on the scope and sensitivity of the targets."
That's a direct contradiction of a curious stance Trump himself has largely maintained since before he was even elected: that it's impossible to know the culprit of the Democratic hacks really was. Less than two weeks before the report, Trump reiterated that claim, this time indicating the culprit could have been China. He also claimed that "If you don't catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it's very hard to say who did the hacking," a sentiment that cybersecurity professionals strongly disagree with."
https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...fficial-russia-hacked-the-democrats/22082440/

