The Republican-led Senate voted decisively to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2016 election by approving a wide-ranging sanctions package that targets key sectors of Russia's economy and individuals who carried out cyber attacks.
Senators on Wednesday passed the bipartisan sanctions legislation 97-2, underscoring broad support among Republicans and Democrats for rebuking Russia after U.S. intelligence agencies determined Moscow had deliberately interfered in the presidential campaign. Lawmakers who backed the measure also cited Russia's aggression in Syria and Ukraine.
Source: USNews.com
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @01:08AM
Those emails should have been available to the public anyway. Also, it was the choice of the American people how to respond to the contents of those emails; it wasn't Russia's fault just because they chose to respond in a particular way.
But at the same time, our security is terrible, and that's concerning in and of itself.