Following months of claims by Hillary Clinton's campaign that Russia is plotting to get Donald Trump elected, the Obama Administration has today publicly endorsed the narrative that Russia was responsible for hacks against the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party.

Officials had long just insisted it was possible Russia was involved, and today insisted that "only" Russia's leaders could've launched such hacking attacks. The significant change in tone, significantly, did not include any actual release of any evidence to that effect.

The Department of Homeland Security rather said the conclusion was reached simply because it was "consistent with Russian motivations," and administration officials vowed to take revenge "at time and place of our choosing," and that the public might not even know the revenge was done by the US.