“It would be driven by a director or a directorial team that really wanted to push that and if [Disney Animation’s Chief Creative Officer] John Lasseter liked the idea,” said John. “But I would say we haven’t ever really [had] restrictions placed on what we’ve done.” — was focused on erasing the divisions between black and white people, not necessarily by blaming white people for their participation in systems of anti-black racism, but by moving beyond racial difference altogether. DHS had previously disclosed its findings that multiple states were subjected to hacking — likely by Russia — but waited approximately one year before telling the individual states; a decision which has come under fire. “It is completely unacceptable that it has taken DHS over a year to inform our office of Russian scanning of our systems, despite repeated requests for information,” California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said in a statement, as reported by the AP. Though the DHS didn’t publicly announce the list of states that were hacked, the AP contacted every state and received confirmations from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, and Washington. DHS also didn’t say who was responsible for the hacking, but the Wisconsin Election Commission said its systems were hacked by “Russian government cyber actors.” Though officials noted that most states’ systems were not actually breached (rather, hackers only got as far as “preparatory activity,” per the AP), at least one state’s was: Illinois. that investigators are curious about statements Stone made in the last month of the 2016 campaign that seemed to indicate prior knowledge of information that was not yet leaked to the public. In a statement to NBC News, Stone denied knowing anything about the information WikiLeaks disseminated prior to its publication.