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The head of the USs National Security Agency said Nov. 15 that a nation-state consciously targeted presidential candidate Hillary Clintons presidential campaign, in order to affect the US election.

In response to a question, Michael S. Rogers, a Naval officer and NSA director since 2014, said on stage at a Wall Street Journal conference that Wikileaks was furthering a nation-states goals by publishing hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clintons presidential campaign weeks ahead of the election.

There shouldnt be any doubt in anybodys minds, this was not something that was done casually, this was not something that was done by chance, this was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily. This was a conscious effort by a nation-state to attempt to achieve a specific effect, he said.

Rogers did not name the nation-state in question, nor elaborate on the effect it sought, but he didnt have to. In October US intelligence agencies, including the NSA, issued a statement (paywall) accusing Russias senior-most officials of authorizing the hacks in order to interfere with the US presidential election. Wikileaks, DCleaks, and the hacker who goes by Guccifer 2.0 were named as being part of a Russia-directed effort.

Rogers went on to say that the NSA was trying to make life harder for hackers. Part of that effort involved dealing directly with a host of countries and telling them what the US considered acceptable behavior when it comes to online activities. Vice president Joe Biden said last month that the US would covertly retaliate against Russian attacks.

Rogers told NPR previously that there was no clear set of rules of engagement among countries when it came to cyberwarfare. We are not in a world of clear definitions right now, he said.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange denied his organization was being directed by Russia in a statement published before polling day. Wikileaks must publish, he wrote. It must publish and be damned.

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