the press. right? but the biden administration is also making that assessment public, saying that they know enough to be able to blame russian intelligence for doing this. this was not some vigilante attack on the editor. this was putin s government going after this journalist. the current nobel peace laureate. they are blaming russia for its overtly, saying it s u.s. intelligence who knows what they did, they are letting russia know they knew what they did by telling our own press about it. and this have not happen in a vacuum. this is happening as our own political right is quite deep into it s presses the enemy of the people phase. this weekend is the white house correspondents association dinner, which the last president did not go to in his whole time in office, and not just because of covid. it s because the last president literally campaigned against there being a free chris. he campaigned on that enemy of the people phrase, which he borrowed from stalin.
biden administration. the official did not give any detail about how the officials had come to make the assessment, citing the need to protect sources. the officials said in a statement, quote, the united states can confirm that russian intelligence orchestrated the april 7th attack on novaya gazeta s editor in chief, dmitry murátov, in which he was smashed with red paint containing acetone. so, they are making the official who is confirming that finding stay anonymous, under biden administration rules, which itself is tension with the press. right? but the biden administration is also making that assessment public, saying that they know enough to be able to blame russian intelligence for doing this. this was not some vigilante attack on the editor. this was putin s government going after this journalist. the current nobel peace laureate. they are blaming russia for its overtly, saying it s u.s. intelligence who knows what they did, they are letting
requests. they ve made their assessment public for the election they believe russia is behind this and went up to the seniormost levels of the russian government, that they re focusing on what the president ordered, which is a full investigation of this and examination of all the intelligence, which they say they ll release not just to the electors but to the whole american public when it s ready before inauguration day. jim sciutto report thanks very much. the president s news conference and remarks about russian hacking and remarks about president-elect donald trump, we re joined by our analyst david chellian. for some of the most sensitive issues of the u.s./russian relations, the cia, the fbi, law enforcement intelligence officials have learned about the hacking. i thought the president came out blunt. i agree with you. clearly trying to deliver a message both to his successor and to the american people. that s the way barack obama has been talking on the dual tracks these days
they describe the officials they re talking to and their sources for the story as, various throughout the story, officials briefed on the the matter or u.s. officials or at one point, like i said, stick a pin in it. a senior u.s. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to u.s. senators. so that sourcing ends up being a big part of that story because this assessment by the cia this is not a public assessment. the cia has not made this incredibly inflammatory assessment public. they haven t said overtly to us, to you and me, to citizens that russia tried to win the election for donald trump. but that assessment is now in the paper. that s now on the front page of the washington post. and the reason it is is because the cia didn t keep this assessment to itself. they gave this assessment to
washington post aren t going to tell us who their sources are and we would never ask them to, but they do describe them. they describe the officials they re talking to and their sources for the story as, various throughout the story, officials briefed on the the matter or u.s. officials or at one point, like i said, stick a pin in it. a senior u.s. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to u.s. senators. so that sourcing ends up being a big part of that story because this assessment by the cia this is not a public assessment. the cia has not made this incredibly inflammatory assessment public. they haven t said overtly to us, to you and me, to citizens that russia tried to win the election for donald trump. but that assessment is now in the paper. that s now on the front page of the washington post. and the reason it is is because the cia didn t keep this