Russia’s Lavrov Scoffs at DNC Leak Allegations

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday shrugged off allegations that the Kremlin was behind a recent leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee. Asked by journalists about the accusation at a meeting in Laos, Lavrov said simply, “Well, I don’t want to use four-letter words.” Thousands of emails of DNC officials were published by WikiLeaks last Friday, creating chaos and forcing Hillary Clinton’s campaign into damage-control mode. The DNC announced in June that it had been hacked, and at that time, an investigation by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike found the hackers had ties to Russian intelligence services.