They were among 51 U.S. intelligence officials, including former CIA chief Leon E. Panetta, who issued a statement on Oct. 11, 2020, asserting that the laptop report had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
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“We also need to have an offense as well that can make clear to our adversaries — whether it’s Russia, or China or North Korea or Iran or terrorists — that if they're going to continue these kinds of attacks on the United States, they, too, will have to pay a price for what they are doing," he said.
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