Via the Washington Post’s late edition yesterday, reporter Ellen Nakashima had up a short article on the Obama administration’s belated admission that the White House computer networks had been breeched by Russian hackers.  In explaining the severity of the breech, the Obama folks did what they do best; they lied through their teeth.  Here’s a key excerpt from the announcement by White House officials:

White House officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said that the intruders did not damage any of the systems and that, to date, there is no evidence the classified network was hacked.

“In the course of assessing recent threats, we identified activity of concern on the unclassified Executive Office of the President network,” said one White House official.  “We took immediate measures to evaluate and mitigate the activity. . . .  Unfortunately, some of that resulted in the disruption of regular services to users.  But people were on it and are dealing with it.”

Scott Johnson of Powerline reported this two weeks ago, and his sources say the problem is much worse than the President’s minions are admitting.  From Johnson’s latest post on this issue, HERE, he says this:

The computers in the Executive Office of the President have been down for two weeks because they were hacked by a foreign power–the Obama administration now says Russia–and administration technical personnel are having trouble bringing them back on line.  This is a huge story, obviously, and it is inconceivable that PowerLine knew about it, but no one in the vast Washington press corps got wind of the fact that computer systems belonging to the White House and dozens of important federal agencies (National Security Staff, to name just one) had been hacked and were out of commission.

The Powerline story also links to Johnson’s earlier posts on the breech.