“The Russian government did not through any cyber intrusion alter ballots, ballot counts or reporting of election results.”
Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testified before the House Intelligence Committee over the Russia probe into possible interference and collusion into our presidential election.
Last summer, the Democrats accused the Russians of hacking into their system after a trove of emails appeared on Wikileaks. But Johnson told the committee that the DNC didn’t want DHS’s help with the investigation.
Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson: DNC refused DHS help after hacking
Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Wednesday the Democratic National Committee decided it didn’t need the department’s help when it was hacked by the Russians and instead opted to rely on a private cybersecurity firm. “This was a question I asked repeatedly when I learned of [the hacking]-what are we doing?
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“This was a question I asked repeatedly when I learned of [the hacking]—what are we doing? Are we in there? Are we helping them discover the vulnerabilities, because this was fresh off the OPM experience and there was a point at which DHS cybersecurity experts did get in to OPM and help them discover the bad actors and patch some of the exfiltrations, or at least minimize some of the damage,” Johnson said referencing the hack at the Office of Personnel Management.
“I was anxious to know whether our folks were in there, and the response I got was the FBI had spoken to them. They don’t want our help. They have CrowdStrike,” he said. “That was the answer I got after I asked the question a number of times over the progression of time.”