Rep. Meeks Statement on President Obama Launching Investigation into Electoral Hacking

Rep. Meeks Statement on President Obama Launching Investigation into Electoral Hacking

Queens, NY—Ranking Member of the Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats Subcommittee, Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, issued the following statement after it was announced that President Barack Obama directed the intelligence community to do a full-scale review of election-related hacking.

"The intelligence community has already concluded that hackers were attempting to interfere with our election. We cannot take lightly their efforts to foment distrust in our electoral process, deluge our feeds and airwaves with disinformation, probe our election systems, and hack and release information that tarnished one of our Presidential candidates. In seeking to undermine our democratic process, these hackers are thereby attacking the very foundations of our resilient democracy. I strongly support President Obama’s directing the intelligence community to conduct a full-scale investigation into the election-related hacking.

“This should be bipartisan; Democrats and Republicans must come together to support an investigation, examine the evidence, and act on any conclusions, for the integrity and sake of our democracy depend on it.”