The chair of the House homeland security committee said he “misspoke” Wednesday evening when he intimated during an interview on CNN that the Republican National Committee’s computer network had been hacked. “I misspoke by asserting that the RNC was hacked,” Texas Republican Mike McCaul said in a statement. “It’s important to note, Wolf, that they have hacked not only hacked into the DNC but also into the RNC,” McCaul told Blitzer at the time. “They have hacked into the RNC, so this is, again, they’re not picking sides here, I don’t think,” McCaul said. Putin has recently been praised by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has also appeared to incite Russia to hack into and publish his opponent Hillary Clinton’s private emails.

Source: The Guardian September 14, 2016 23:07 UTC