• Evelyn Farkas Walks Back MSNBC Comments, Blames Russian 'Fake News' for

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    Evelyn Farkas, the former Obama administration official who
    dropped a bombshell on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" earlier this month,
    is now furiously back-peddling. Farkas, a former deputy
    assistant secretary of defense under Obama, seemed to admit
    during that March 2 appearance that her colleagues had gathered
    intelligence on the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia
    before Donald Trump took office and then tried to hide the
    sources of that intelligence from the incoming administration.

    “I was urging my former colleagues and, frankly speaking, the
    people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the
    Hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much
    intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the
    administration,” said Farkas.

    “I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with
    the senior [Obama] people who left, so it would be hidden away
    in the bureaucracy," she said, adding that if "the Trump folks"
    found out how they knew what they knew, "they would try to
    compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would no longer
    have access to that intelligence.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gapRNpEjXUo

    On NBC News yesterday, she claimed that she had been
    misunderstood, telling the Squawk Box panel that she was only
    explaining “why people might be motivated to do that.”

    During a later appearance on MSNBC Thursday afternoon, Farkas
    actually claimed that she was the victim of a “dark campaign of
    fake news.”

    Farkas, now an NBC News national security analyst, whined to
    anchor Kate Snow:

    And on the dark campaign of fake news, you know, that's still
    ongoing. We see even someone like myself get swept up in all of
    this. You know, when people like me are speaking on behalf of
    process, people spin to it suit their needs. And I think it may
    be that the Russians are behind even such fake news today.
    (I ran the story here at PJ Media earlier this week, and can
    assure Ms. Farkas that I am not a Russian "botnet" nor am I
    being paid by the Russians to spread "fake news.")

    Former Obama Official Describes Last-Minute Rush to Spy on Trump
    Team, Conceal Intel Sources
    Anchor Kate Snow ran a clip of Spicer telling reporters
    yesterday:

    Obama’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense that is out there,
    Evelyn Farkas, she made it clear that it was their goal to
    spread this information around, that they went around and did
    this. And she said, quote, “That's why there are so many leaks.”
    They have admitted on the record that this was their goal, to
    leak stuff. And they – literally she said on the record,
    “Trump's team.” There are serious questions out there about what
    happened and why and who did it.
    Farkas denied her own words, calling the reaction to them a
    "total distortion."

    So there’s a total distortion of what I said and what I was
    talking about. I was talking about the fact that I was – I was
    outside of government, I no access to intelligence on this
    whatsoever – but I was concerned because I knew how the Russians
    operate and I was reading these reports about them hacking into
    the elections and then giving information to Wikipedia [sic] and
    that Trump people, Trump team people, were going to Moscow. And
    you know, there was a lot of reporting on this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xyL8sBngI

    This video is no longer available because the YouTube account
    associated with this video has been terminated.

    Sorry about that.

    https://pjmedia.com/video/evelyn-farkas-walks-back-msnbc- comments-blames-russian-fake-news-for-spreading-story/
     

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