US President Barack Obama vowed to finally present evidence of Russia’s involvement in cyberattacks on US political organizations. "We will provide evidence that we can safely provide, that does not compromise sources and methods. But I’ll be honest with you, when you’re talking about cybersecurity, a lot of it is classified and we are not going to provide it, because the way we catch folks is by knowing certain things about them that they don’t want us to know," Obama said during his final press conference of the year, adding that the information has already been submitted to Congress leaders, TASS reports.
"The intelligence I’ve seen gives me great confidence in their assessment that the Russians carried out this hack - the hack of the DNC and the hack of John Podesta," the president continued.
Although Obama hinted that "not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin," he stopped short of accusing him directly, adding that the final determination of the Russian president’s role not be announced until the review is complete. He reiterated his earlier comments in which he vowed to take action in response.
"Our goal continues to be to send a clear message to Russia or others not do this to us because we can do stuff to you," he said.
The president added that there were no attempts to tamper with the voting and the vote count itself. "We did not see further tampering of the election process," he said.
