US Senators John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Lindsey Graham and Jack Reed urged a bipartisan committee not to become a partisan issue. Former CIA director Michael Morrell referred to the Russian meddling in the election as the political equivalent of 9/11 Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he wasnt certain if the hacks were intended to help a particular candidate, but I think it clearly was aimed at discrediting our elections, Gates said. President-elect Donald Trump blew off the idea that the intelligence community had a clue as to whom was behind the hacks.”]