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(12 Dec 2016) The White House says it supports an investigation by Congress into the role that Russia played in last month's president election.
Republican leaders in both chambers say that committees will be looking into cyber threats, even as President-elect Donald Trump has said the recent CIA assertion that Russian hacking had sought to help his candidacy was "ridiculous."
White House spokesman Josh Earnest says that one of the goals of an intelligence review ordered by President Barack Obama is to compile information that can be presented to Congress.
Earnest says the congressional review "is certainly warranted when you consider the stakes and the consequences."
Earnest is also praising intelligence officials, saying the men and women in the intelligence community are "patriots" and that the president has benefited enormously from their expertise.
The White House is also shooting down the notion floated by one of President-elect Donald Trump's potential State Department picks that the Obama administration may have framed Russia with false hacking allegations.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said over the weekend that the cyber interference in the election might have been a "false flag" and left open the possibility it was done by the Obama administration.
A false flag is an operation designed to look like it was perpetrated by someone else.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest says he can rule out that possibility.
He says a "wide range of irresponsible conspiracy theorists" have floated the theory.
Bolton has been on Trump's list of potential candidates for secretary of state.
Trump's transition team says Bolton is also being considered for another State Department role.


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