Donald Trump appears to be holding firm to his skepticism of the huge intelligence apparatus he is about to inherit.
Over the weekend, Trump reiterated that the CIA was wrong in concluding that Russia had tried to hack its way into tipping the US election in his favor. He said that he does not accept the findings and that the CIA’s claims that the Kremlin intervened are “"ridiculous".
Trump also demanded to know why the subject was not raised before Election Day.
The issue has been in the headlines since at least June. The matter came to light after hackers made their way into computers at the Democratic National Committee, after WikiLeaks began publishing Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman's hacked emails in October and after the Obama administration publicly blamed Russia's government, also in October.
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