A “nation-state” used Wikileaks to influence the US election, the head of the NSA says

The head of the US’s National Security Agency, Michael Rogers, said Nov 15 that a “nation-state” consciously targeted presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, in order to affect the US election. In response to a question, Michael Rogers, a Naval officer and NSA director since 2014, said that Wikileaks was furthering a nation-state’s goals by publishing hacked e-mails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton’s presidential campaign weeks ahead of the election. “There shouldn’t be any doubt in anybody’s minds, this was not something that was done casually, this was not something that was done by chance, this was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily. This was a conscious effort by a nation-state to attempt to achieve a specific effect,” he said.