WASHINGTON – President Obama made the extraordinary decision to expel 35 Russian diplomats in retaliation for what he claims were cyber hacking attempts by their government aimed at the U.S. presidential election, even though he has presented no evidence that it happened.
Thursday afternoon, Reuters reported a senior U.S. official said the Russian diplomats have been given 72 hours to leave the United States.
The official also said the U.S. has closed two Russian compounds in New York and Maryland.
U.S. officials told Reuters the series of retaliatory measures were in response to Russia hacking and leaking information to help President-elect Donald Trump.
Julian Assange, whose group WikiLeaks published emails showing the Hillary Clinton campaign in a bad light, has denied he obtained them from Russia.
Both Democrat and Republican lawmakers have called on the administration to release any evidence it may have to verify the accusation, but have been rebuffed.
Not only is there no evidence Russia ever tampered with the actual vote, no one in the intelligence community ever even claimed that happened.
As WND reported, the CIA did not allege “that Russia in any way impacted vote counting on Election Day.”
The allegations leaked to the press by anonymous CIA sources were that Russia might have hacked into Democratic emails so that the contents would embarrass the Clinton campaign, once made public. No one has alleged that Russia hacked the actual voting tallies.
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