Wednesday while testifying before the House Intelligence Committee at a hearing on Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election, former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said his department offered to help the Democratic National Committee, then chaired by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), whose email communications were hacked and released to the public by Wikileaks. Johnson said, “The response I got was — FBI had spoken to them, they don’t want our help, they have Crowd Strike cyber security firm.” Partial transcript as follows: KING: Can you elaborate more on what the DHS’s connection with the DNC was, or consultation with the DNC after it became aware of the hacking, as to what was offered them, what they accepted? Was there any level of cooperation at all? JOHNSON: To my disappointment, not to my knowledge, sir. And this is a question I asked repeatedly when I first learned of it—”What are we doing? Are we in there? Are we helping them discover the vulnerabilities?” Because this is fresh off the experience and there was a point at which DHS cybersecurity experts did get into OPM and help them discover the bad actors and patch some of the infiltrations, or at