Reince Priebus Asks US Intelligence Leaders To Make Russian Hacking Probe Public

Media reports today (19 December) said United States President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Chief of Staff Reince Priebus has cast doubt on the US intelligence community's finding about Russian hacking affecting the presidential poll results.

On what it would take for Trump to accept the Russian hacking to be true, Priebus said: "He would accept if these intelligence professionals would get together, put out a report, and show the American people that they're actually on the same page."

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan had sent an unclassified letter on Friday (16 December) to the agency's employees that Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper agree with the CIA's findings on the Russian hacking. But Priebus said that it was not enough and the intelligence leaders should defend their findings publicly.

With inputs from IANS