Sometimes a look into the past reveals a comment that was overlooked at the time.
Here in December 2016 is White House Special Assistant Lisa Monaco in an interview done for PBS NewsHour:
Watch @hari's interview with Lisa Monaco here: https://t.co/R13Exag0Zn https://t.co/lJh5T0afi9
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) December 29, 2016
Quote:
HARI SREENIVASAN: Now, since you have laid out that you know who is doing this, you know how they’re doing this, can you say with any certainty that either the hacks have stopped and that we have defended against them?
LISA MONACO: Well, what we did over the summer was to be very clear about what the threat is, and we did that by briefing both Congress and state and local officials, who, of course, own and operate and manage the electoral infrastructure in this country.
And we enabled them to take steps to defend themselves and provided them assistance in shoring up their defenses. So, we also were very clear, during the election season and on Election Day, that we were monitoring and making sure that there had not been an increase in that malicious activity, and we didn’t see an increase.
And, indeed, we are confident in the outcome that there wasn’t a malicious cyber-meddling, such that it affected the vote count or the voting operations.
Other than the DNC, who else was hacked? @hari speaks with Lisa Monaco, special assistant to the president #PBSNews pic.twitter.com/YVjQ8ot7lf
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) December 29, 2016
Here is head of the DHS, Jeh Johnson, from a Fox News video from before the election:
https://twitter.com/efairhurst/status/795743712970162176
Lisa Monaco also appeared on Tommy Vietor’s podcast to talk about the Russian hacks:
LISTEN: Top homeland security advisor Lisa Monaco talks terrorism, cybersecurity + more w/@TVietor08 @PodSaveAmerica https://t.co/1zRkT7tLTK pic.twitter.com/Ue1RGbgulI
— Belfer Center (@BelferCenter) March 6, 2017
Pod Save the World Scary Sh*t with Lisa Monaco https://t.co/A6A5kbWZBK via @YouTube
— Daniel Alexander (@DannyA43) April 4, 2017
It seems that the Obama administration was focused on preventing Russia from interfering in the election … and they maintain that the election vote was not hacked. And now this:
PBS releases full transcript of Susan Rice Q&A 'people have distorted,' but Brit Hume's not buying it https://t.co/k1Kpx7WZg3
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 4, 2017
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