NBC News justice correspondent Pete Williams spoke on Morning Joe Thursday discussing the Obama administration's response to claims that North Korea was behind the recent Sony hacks.
"I would say the best I can tell from that is that they haven't a clue," Williams said.
As for the administration’s next step, the path is not clear.
Government officials have said the hacks were done at the behest of the North Korean government, but may not have come from within the country, and were possibly conducted by a third party.
"We had expected a written public statement today from the U.S. government in some capacity officially blaming North Korea. All of what we've been told is on background from U.S. officials--nothing formal, nothing in writing," Williams said.
"That was to come out today ,but now we were told they are rethinking whether to do that or not precisely for the reason that you just mentioned, Joe: It begs the question of OK, what would the U.S. do in response? And that isn't clear yet."