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Holy smoking gun, Batman! Once you wave away all the smoke created by our dishonest media, the story of this past week was pretty simple. The Trump-Russia-Conspiracy narrative is falling apart. The Obama-Spied-on-his-Political-Opposition narrative is coming together. The media has given credence to Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff's hysterical charges about how the Republican chair of the committee, Devin Nunes, made his latest discoveries. But Schiff is a dishonest McCarthyite, spewing insinuations and accusations without any proof to back them up. Nunes, on the other hand, has obviously gotten hold of solid intel showing that Obama spied on Trump and his...

As a 20-year-long government tenure, and a deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia in the Obama White House until 2015 would know that there are some things that just can't be walked back Now we know why former Obama official and Hillary Clinton rat pack campaign enthusiast Evelyn Farkas went so far out of her way to out herself on her March 2nd MSNBC appearance: It was to advance the progressive left’s smear du jour on which they are losing ground: The Russians swiped election victory out of the desperate White House or Bust Hillary Clinton.

On CNBC’s Squawk Box on March 30, a former senior Obama administration official tried to take back her earlier admission that the former administration tried to “get as much information” as possible on Trump and his associates before the transition of power – but she only dug herself in deeper. Evelyn Farkas used to be the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia under President Obama. Now, like former Press Secretary Josh Earnest, she’s made the move over to NBC News as a National Security Analyst. Claiming that her previous statements had been misunderstood, Farkas insisted to the Squawk Box...

Too sad for words for American readers, television viewers and radio listeners, that the MSM couldn’t give a damn The mainstream media, including its alphabet television news networks, the New York Times and Washington Post are sitting this morning on the bombshell revelation that ex-Obama official Evelyn Farkas appears to have owned up in her own words to have participated in well-planned surveillance of the Trump team conducted by the Obama administration which buried their dirty work deep in the federal bureaucracy. Read The Swamp. Farkas, who left her position as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and...

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...

Unsurprisingly, President Donald J. Trump was correct. Though he originally spoke, or tweeted, clumsily, the gist of his claim was correct: The administration of his predecessor, Barack H. Obama, had indeed been surveilling Trump and those close to his campaign. As I showed in a previous article, The New York Times, Slate, Mother Jones, and Heat Street—i.e. Democratic Party propaganda organs—are among the media outlets that confirmed months ago the President’s claim. Theses surveillance efforts had been transpiring from at least the time of last summer. It’s true that it has not yet been proven that either Trump or any...

- The ongoing demonization of House Intel Committee Chair Devin Nunes by the fake news media and Democrat Party is classic Saul Alinsky tactics (Rule 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.). They see someone getting to the heart of a scandal that will ultimately cause great harm to the leftist cause, and so they demonize the messenger. There is absolutely nothing wrong in any action Nunes has taken in getting accurate, truthful information out regarding the Obama Administration’s blatant surveillance of the Trump campaign and transition team, and the illegal unmasking of General Mike Flynn...

We look at the woman in the middle of the controversy of admitting to encouraging leaking email and unmasking.

Comrade Treeperski, Dr Farkas has discovered Russian plot making her to speak too much with Comrade Brzezinski: Comrade citizens, we must develop alternative “sources and methods”. Who is this Comrade Wikipedia and how do we talk him?

The White House is asking Congress to dig deeper into whether communications of Trump associates were improperly picked up and disseminated during surveillance operations, after an ex-Obama administration official suggested her former colleagues tried to gather such material. White House Counsel Don McGahn specifically cited Evelyn Farkas’ comments in a letter to the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee, as he invited lawmakers to view documents that apparently show surveillance of Trump associates during the transition.

Not surprisingly the Farkas story has been patently ignored by the MSM and seems to have already fallen by the wayside Long before ex-Obama official Evelyn Farkas self-outed as a participant in an under cover surveillance of Trump campaign staff conducted by the Obama administration, she had a prominent persona in the Russian conspiracy meme played out ad nauseam by the mainstream media. In fact, before she curiously outed herself, Evelyn Farkas may have played The starring role in the ongoing drama called ‘Vladimir Putin Stole the Presidency from Hillary Clinton’.

Washington D.C. – A White House reporter defended former Obama official, Evelyn Farkas today and Sean Spicer wasn’t having it! Farkas is currently in hot water for statements she made in March 2nd MSNBC interview about her knowledge of the Obamagate scandal. Sean Spicer: “I would assume that as a reporter who is actually interested in the story…it might be worth asking her what she’s talking about, who she spread it to, why she did it…maybe those are appropriate..”

SIP SLOWLY – We’ve been waiting patiently to see how the media would obfuscate the Evelyn Farkas accidental revelations about Obama administration current and former officials trying to leak intelligence information. An NBC report provides the answer: (Via NBC) Obama administration officials were so concerned about what would happen to key classified documents related to the Russia probe once President Trump took office that they created a list of document serial numbers to give to senior members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, a former Obama official told NBC News. The official said that after the list of documents related to...

The White House said Thursday that while the media is “obsessed” with the details surrounding House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’ (R-Calif.) visit to the White House last week, it is focused on finding out who leaked the names of U.S. citizens, which the intelligence community incidentally collected information on during surveillance of the Trump campaign. {..snip..}

Breaking News Exclusive: Evelyn Farkas Statement for The American Spectator: Video ‘A Wild Misinterpretation’ of Her Comments To American Spectator readers: As it happens in the world of coincidence, Evelyn Farkas, who served President Obama as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia and is now in the news on the Trump-Russia issue, turns out to be a fellow graduate of Franklin and Marshall College. Currently she is an MSNBC analyst and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. I did not know until yesterday either Ms. Farkas or that, like me, she was an F&M graduate. She contacted me after...

"Evelyn Farkas Admits She Helped Spy On Trump For Obama" Listen to Mika introduce Evelyn Farkas here and watch Evelyn Farkas' on camera acknowledgment (head nodding) of what Mika was saying. "And then, Evelyn Farkas, the other big story of the day, you actually knew about this, uh, attempt to get and preserve this information; and full transparently doing some work yourself. Tell us about that."

If anyone were in Nunes’s position, he or she might doubt that the new Trump administration could fully trust Director Comey or others in the intelligence agencies to provide disinterested appraisals of such information, given that a number of intelligence officials may themselves, in theory, have been involved in the intercepts and their dissemination. He might advise that any possible sources connected even remotely to the White House should have disclosed the existence of such information to his boss. Nor would he necessarily believe that Representative Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) would be a reliable partner on the intelligence committee. Would...

- But was her son, Scut, involved? What about his toady, Grover Dill?: Speaking of stories you can’t find, a former Obama official named Evelyn Farkas told Mika Brzezenzski (or however you spell that name) on MSNBC early in March that she and many other Obama officials had indeed participated in an organized effort to circulate raw surveillance intelligence involving members of the Trump Transition Team, and had gladly shared the intel with members of the fake news media, unmasking some American citizens in the process. She told this all to MSNBC gladly, and in a manner that made it...

Former Obama official and Hillary Clinton campaign advisor Dr. Evelyn Farkas gave an interview to Vox published February 16, two weeks before her now notorious March 2 Morning Joe appearance, that contradicts her denials this week that she only knew from the media about alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

This was making waves yesterday, after Evelyn Farkas admitted to Mika from The Morning Joe show that she strongly advised people 'on the hill' and in our intelligence agencies to tuck away intelligence regarding Russo-Trump ties for the sake of preservation, in an effort to protect it from the onerous bureaucracy she obviously finds to be deplorable. "Get as much intelligence as you can before President Obama leaves the administration," said Farkas in an interview yesterday on MSNBC. She was afraid the Trump people would gain access to their intelligence and whisk it away -- because they're all Russian spies,...