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The intelligence community officially blames Russia for the major cyhberatiacks. “The statement, issued jointly by four agencies in a special task force, counters Trump's baseless suggestion fa last month that the intrusions might have been the work of Chinese hackers,” y Nakashima reports, “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said previously that the breaches were ‘clearly’ Russian in origin, and US. officials have for weeks said privately that Moscow's foreign intelligence service carried them out. The breaches were so alarming that they had government and private-sector personnel working through the holidays to identify and mitigate ther.” Biden names more Obama administration alumni for key foreign policy jobs. “For deputy secretary of state, Biden will nominate Wendy Sherman, the chiet US negotiator of the fran nuclear deal under the Obama administration,” Jobs Nucsar reports. “The nomination for the No. 3 job at the State Department, undemecretary for political affairs, is expected to go to Victoria Nuland, who served as spokesperson for the department under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and was the top U.S. diplomat for Europe under Secretary of State John F. Kerry ... At the National Security Council, Biden is expected to give the job of deputy national security adviser to Jon Finer ... Finer is a former Washington Post reporter who worked in a number of jobs in the Obama administration that culminated in his role as director of policy planning at the State Department.” Social media speed read Stuart Stevens, who was Mitt Romney's chief strategist in 2012 and has emerged as a vocal Trump critic, celebrated Loeffler’s defeat: FBI(21cv558)-120