Hannity Defends WikiLeaks After Intelligence Community Confirms Russia Hacked US During Elections
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Fox News host Sean Hannity defended WikiLeaks following reports from top US intelligence officials concluding that Russia “meddled in election by hacking” and spreading propaganda. On January 5, Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee that “Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign went well beyond hacking to include disinformation and the dissemination of “fake news” — an effort, he said, that continues.” Hannity, who has claimed that there is no evidence that Russia meddled in US election, ignored the report on his Fox New show and defended WikiLeaks claiming they “reveal[ed] how corrupt the liberal news media is” and argued that Russia didn't hack voting machines. From the January 5 edition of Fox News' Hannity: