‘I feel like we sort of choked’: Obama’s no-drama approach to Russian hacking isn’t sitting well

When it came to disclosing Russian hacking during the 2016 election, President Barack Obama took his customary no-drama approach. But the drama has found him.

The Washington Post reported Friday morning that the CIA told the White House as early as August 2016 that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered interference in the 2016 election with the express purpose of helping elect Donald Trump. And this intelligence, according to The Post’s Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima and Adam Entous, was based on Putin’s “specific instructions” from “sourcing deep inside the Russian government.”