Top US intelligence official: Russia meddled in election by hacking, spreading of propaganda

WASHINGTON - The country's top intelligence official testified to Congress on Thursday that Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign went well beyond hacking to include disinformation and the dissemination of "fake news" - an effort, he said, that continues.

"Whatever crack, fissure, they could find in our tapestry . . . they would exploit…