A senior Republican senator said Wednesday that his campaign accounts were hacked by Russians, taking issue with President-elect Donald Trump's rejection of Moscow's alleged interference in the US elections.
Senator Lindsey Graham said he was informed three months before the November 8 presidential election that his accounts were broken into.
"Our campaign vendor was hacked. We were told by the FBI in August that we were hacked in June," he told CNN television.
Trump has rejected the conclusion by the CIA and FBI that Russians stole data out of campaign computers and were behind the leak of documents and communications from the Democratic National Committee and the emails of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign chief, John Podesta.
Those leaks damaged Clinton's ultimately losing campaign effort and the CIA concluded that, with the leaks, Russia had intended to bolster Trump.
"I do believe the Russians hacked into the DNC. I do believe they hacked into Podesta's email account. They hacked into my campaign account. I do believe all the information released publicly hurt Clinton, didn't hurt Trump," Graham said.
"But I don't think the outcome of the election is in doubt," he added.
Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has called for a congressional probe into Russian election hacking.
And he said on Twitter that Russia would pay.
"My goal is to put on President Trump's desk crippling sanctions against Russia. They need to pay a price," he said.
Separately late Wednesday Devin Nunes, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said that the main intelligence community agencies had rejected his demand that they brief the committee on Thursday on cyber attacks during the election.
"The committee is vigorously looking into reports of cyber-attacks during the election campaign, and in particular we want to clarify press reports that the CIA has a new assessment that it has not shared with us," he said in a statement.
"The committee is deeply concerned that intransigence in sharing intelligence with Congress can enable the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes."
AFP
Thu Dec 15 2016
Senator Lindsey Graham (pic) said he was informed three months before the November 8 presidential election that his accounts were broken into. - Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP
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