Putin not-so-subtly taunting the US by releasing a statement that admits "Patriotically minded private Russian hackers" had a hand meddling in the US election. How very Putin of him to not publicly say anything but he still wants to know who was responsible.
He has done this so many times now, his ego will not allow him to keep quiet about his deeds forever. "There are no Russians in Ukraine"... then "Russian soldiers were just taking a vacation in Ukraine with all their equipment". "Such a tragedy that my main political rival was gunned down right outside the Kremlin. These lawless killers will be brought to justice. ". "Those two bullets in the back of my rivals head is 100% suicide"
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Shifting from his previous blanket denials, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Thursday that “patriotically minded” private Russian hackers could have been involved in cyberattacks last year to help the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump.
While Mr. Putin continued to deny any state role, his comments to reporters in St. Petersburg were a departure from the Kremlin’s previous position: that Russia had played no role whatsoever in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and that, after Mr. Trump’s victory, the country had become the victim of anti-Russia hysteria among crestfallen Democrats.
Raising the possibility of attacks by what he portrayed as free-spirited Russian patriots, Mr. Putin said that hackers “are like artists” who choose their targets depending how they feel “when they wake up in the morning.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/w...=Homepage&_r=1