Do you think she's gonna Farkus?
Posted on 04/02/2017 2:39:42 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Law enforcement experts say Obama official must testify on 'unmasking,' may have admitted crime
A month-old interview on MSNBC, largely unnoticed at the time, has reemerged and generated intense interest over an apparent admission: Officials in the outgoing administration may have spread surveillance information about President Donald Trump and his associates.
The discussion with MSNBC host Mika Brezinski on March 2 focused on a New York Times story that appeared the day before under the headline, “Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Hacking.”
“What she said precisely tracks with what many of us have been saying: The Obama administration did abuse national security information.”
The story quoted unnamed former government officials who described efforts to “leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators.” The information included evidence passed along by U.S. allies of meetings between Russian officials and Trump’s associates, and communications — intercepted by American intelligence agencies among Russians — among Russians discussing contacts with Trump officials.
Evelyn Farkas, former deputy assistant secretary of defense, left the government in 2015 and now works as a fellow at the Atlantic Council. She told Brezinski that she urged her former colleagues to “preserve” the intelligence.
“It was more actually aimed at telling the [Capitol] Hill people, ‘Get as much information as you can and 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,” she said. “So it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy.”
Just in case there was any ambiguity, Farkas made clear her concern was the incoming Trump administration.
“The Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about the staff, the Trump staff’s dealings with Russians, that they would try to compromise these sources and methods, meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence,” she said. “So I became very worried because not enough was coming out in the open, and I knew that there was more.”
She added, “That’s why you have the leaking. People are worried.”
Farkas’ Comments ‘Too Good to Be True’
Some national security experts said Farkas’ comments lend credibility to allegations that outgoing Obama administration officials mishandled classified information for political reasons.
“What she said precisely tracks with what many of us have been saying: The Obama administration did abuse national security information,” Fred Fleitz, a former CIA officer, told LifeZette. “It was almost too good to be true.”
Fleitz, now senior vice president for policy and programs at the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, said there are appropriate ways to preserve national security information.
“If they had concerns, they could bring it to the FBI,” he said.
Joseph diGenova, who served as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia under Ronald Reagan, said Farkas and the former administration officials she referred to should be questioned under oath.
Exactly what did they plan on doing with the information? They couldn’t admit how they got. Well, Farkas did but she sure as hell was supposed to be smarter than that.
Exactly what did they plan on doing with the information? They couldn’t admit how they got. Well, Farkas did but she sure as hell was supposed to be smarter than that.
In addition to inside political information, they were hoping to find evidence of a crime then launch a legal investigation and jail trump and his family.
Do you think she's gonna Farkus?
I sure hope so.
“then Mika said something to try to shut the ignorant twit up, but she kept right on.”
Mika: “A lot going on today.” (minimizing)
Farkas: (clueless) “Yeah, a lot going on. That’s why you have the leaking.”
Mika: Fighting the urge to face palm
I hate auto-correct. Don't you. ROTFLOL.
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REFERENCE---The NYT story quoted unnamed former Obama government officials who described efforts to “leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators.” The information included evidence passed along by U.S. allies of meetings between Russian officials and Trump’s associates, and communications — intercepted by American intelligence agencies.
ROTFL
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