So was it a “hack” or a “leak”? According to President Obama, apparently both.

During the president’s final press conference of 2016, Obama called the release of DNC staff emails the result of a “hack” — and a “leak”.

“Once we had clarity and certainty around what, in fact had happened, we publicly announced that, in fact, Russian had hacked into the DNC,” Obama said.

Obama claimed his administration didn’t “interpret” what was happening, but instead, just passing along what they saw as the facts.

“We simply let people know, just as we had let members of Congress know, that this had happened,” Obama said.

He said the media wrote stories about the emails and “interpreted what had happened.”

Obama insisted he wanted to “play it straight.”

“We weren’t trying to advantage one side or another, but what we were trying to do is let people know that this had taken place and so if you started seeing the effects on the election, if you were trying to measure why this was happening, and how you should consume the information that was being leaked, that you might want to take this into account,” Obama said.

So was the information “hacked” or “leaked”?