CIA director John Brennan has warned Russia has
"exceptionally capable and sophisticated" computer capabilities and
that the US must be on guard.
When asked in
a television interview whether Russia is trying to manipulate the American
presidential election, Brennan didn't say.
But he noted
that the FBI is investigating the hacking of Democratic National Committee
emails, and he cited Moscow's aggressive intelligence collection and its focus
on high-tech snooping.
"I think
that we have to be very, very wary of what the Russians might be trying to do
in terms of collecting information in a cyber realm, as well as what they might
want to do with it," he told CBS on the 15th anniversary of the September
11 attacks.
On the
terrorism threat, Brennan said the US government is much better now at sharing
information.
He praised
Saudi Arabia as "a good example of how foreign intelligence services can
work against these terrorist organisations".
On Friday,
Congress sent President Barack Obama a bipartisan bill that would allow
families of September 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia.
Fifteen of
the 19 hijackers from September 11 were Saudi nationals. The Obama
administration has said that if US citizens can take the Saudis to court, then
a foreign country could in turn sue the United States.
The White
House has indicated Obama would veto the measure.
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