Former Obama official discloses rush to get intelligence on Trump team

March 29, 2022 Posted By President

A former top Obama administration official has acknowledged efforts by her colleagues to gather intelligence on Trump team ties to Russia before Donald Trump took office and to conceal the sources of that intelligence from the incoming administration.

Evelyn Farkas, deputy assistant secretary of defense under Obama, made the disclosure while on the air with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski.

“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,” Farkas, who is now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, said. 

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“Because 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 … that the Trump folks –

If they found out how we knew what we knew about their … the Trump staff dealing with Russians – that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we no longer have access to that intelligence.” 

The comments come as lawmakers on Capitol Hill clash over House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’ claim last week that surveillance operations incidentally collected Trump team communications during the transition. Critics have accused Nunes of carrying water for Trump and called on him to recuse himself from Russia matters, but Nunes and his congressional allies have pushed back. 

Aside from questions over whether communications were improperly gathered during the transition and before, there is speculation over how widely such information was disseminated. Farkas described a rush to spread the material before Trump took office. 

“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,” she said. “So then I had talked to some of my former colleagues and I knew that they were trying to also help get information to the Hill.”

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  • DrArtaud

    I don’t suggest any Republicans or Conservatives watch the video with this article, it’s pure left wing hype, with the exception of one small part. Jump to the elapsed time of 4:50 in the video with the article to listen to the relevant part and save yourself the tension.

    In addition, watch this:

    Video: Russia: Obama was most evil President

    Published on Dec 29, 2021 Maria Zakharova, Russia’s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, has stated on a national TV show that Obama will go down in history as one of the most evil Presidents and Administrations.

    If the subtitling is correct, she says that the State Department told Russia that they would use the U.S. (and other?) media to spin as negative Russian efforts against terrorism in Syria. The media as a weapon. Interesting, and it’s still going on against Trump.

    In another video, the Russians purportedly said if this nonsense continues with the democrats persecuting Trump with allegations of Russian involvement in rigging U.S. elections that they will release information that obama asked them to keep private, apparently because it sheds light on his underhanded nature.