This is one of the funnier denials I’ve ever read. ‘On a State level’ Russia didn’t do it? This is what’s known as a non-denial denial, where he wants you to know he did it, while officially denying it. The deniable IMF ‘independent’ Russian hackers are not the ‘State’.
Via Reuters:
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he did not know who was behind the hacking of U.S. Democratic Party organizations but the information uncovered was important, Bloomberg news agency reported on Friday.
In an interview two days before a G20 meeting in China with U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders, Putin said it might be impossible to establish who engineered the release of sensitive Democratic Party emails but it was not done by the Russian government.
“Does it even matter who hacked this data?” Putin said. “The important thing is the content that was given to the public.”
“There’s no need to distract the public’s attention from the essence of the problem by raising some minor issues connected with the search for who did it,” he added. “But I want to tell you again, I don’t know anything about it, and on a state level Russia has never done this.”