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EVELYN FARKAS
ADDENDUM PART A
The conversation with Joe and Mika

According to” LeadingAuthorities,”

https://www.leadingauthorities.com/speakers/evelyn-farkas

“ Dr. Farkas appears regularly as an NBC/MSNBC national security contributor to discuss hot-button geopolitical issues. “

LOL! that’s an understatement. The following became quite the hot button issue!

Following is a transcript of the conversation Dr. Farkas had with Joe and Mika which launched the controversy. Did she confirm that “spying” had been done to the DJT campaign? We know now that really and truly she did.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/who-the-hell-is-evelyn-farkas.html

Who the Hell Is Evelyn Farkas?
By OSITA NWANEVU
MARCH 31, 20174:47 PM

“…Let’s start from the beginning. Early this month, the New York Times published a story about Obama administration officials working to preserve and disseminate intelligence about Russian efforts to influence November’s election across the government before President Obama left office. According to the article, officials were concerned that some of that intelligence, including intercepted communications from Russians detailing contacts with people in Trump’s circle and information on Russian meetings with Trump associates, would be “covered up or destroyed” by the Trump administration.”

The day after the story was published, MSNBC analyst and former Obama Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia and Ukraine, Evelyn Farkas appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and was asked about the article. Farkas, who left the Obama administration in 2015, told Mika Brzezinski that she had encouraged former colleagues still working in the administration and “people on the Hill” to take part in the effort to preserve intelligence and intelligence sources:

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. Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people who left. So it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy that the Trump folks—if they found out how we knew what we knew about the Trump staff, dealing with Russians—that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence.

So I became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and I knew that there was more. We have very good intelligence on Russia. So then I had talked to some of my former colleagues and I knew that they were also trying to help get information to the Hill.

Re-read that transcript. The following is the description of Farkas’ comments given, weeks after the interview, this Wednesday by Sean Hannity on his radio show:

“If they found out how we knew what we knew about the Trump staff, dealing with Russians, they would try to compromise sources and methods [sic].” What are the three big words of the day that I just told you about—well, four big words? Surveillance. Unmasking. Intelligence leaks. So she’s acknowledging that what Donald Trump tweeted out was correct! So she’s acknowledging there’s surveillance. Again, I go back, “If they knew how we knew what we knew about the Trump staff dealing with Russians [sic]” — so she’s acknowledging surveillance, so that means Trump’s right. Check that off in the box….”

The analysis which continues in the Slate article, as one might expect, is spin. We will look at a better analysis in ADDENDUM Part B

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