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