Obama Orders "Full Review" Of Election Hacking Concerns

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A top aide to President Obama said Friday he's ordered a "full review" of hacking activity related to the 2016 election.

"The president has directed the intelligence community to conduct a full review of what happened during the 2016 election process...to capture lessons learned from that and to report to a range of stakeholders to include the Congress," United States Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco said at a Christian Science Monitor event.

In October, the Obama administration said it was "confident" the Russian government sought to “interfere with the US election process” via a series of mostly email hacks on political entities.

“The recent disclosures of alleged hacked emails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts,” a joint statement from the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security said at the time.

On Friday, Monaco said Obama wanted the review delivered before he leaves office on January 20.

"We may be crossed into a new threshold and it is incumbent upon us to take stock of that, to review, to conduct some after-action, to understand what this means, what has happened and to impart those lessons learned and that's what we're going to do," Monaco added.

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