“It’s the sanctity of our process, of evaluating and looking at candidates, and having accurate information about the candidates. The NSA, with 35,000 civilian and military employees, gathers intelligence on foreign targets overseas through wiretaps and increasingly by cyberhacking. The Obama administration slapped economic sanctions on two Russian spy agencies involved in hacking the DNC, three companies believed to have provided support for government cyber operations, and four Russian cyber officials. Yet, intelligence officials including NSA Director Michael S. Rogers and FBI Director James B. Comey said on Monday that they believe Moscow will strike again — in 2020, if not in 2018. “In some cases, we had to do things very differently” to gather the same foreign intelligence as before.

Source: Washington Post March 25, 2017 22:41 UTC