The video of former Obama administration official Evelyn Farkas in an MSNBC interview dropped the big shoe on Obama spying. It also opened the door on the plans to ensure that it was leaked far and wide throughout the intelligence community. His words were enough to start an investigation by even the most skeptical among us. What will become of these revelations?
As Written By Sean Hannity for Fox News:
President Trump was ridiculed by the alt-left, propaganda, destroy-Trump media when he said on Twitter that members of his transition team had been wiretapped by the Obama administration. But a damning video clip from just days before Trump’s tweet appears to vindicate the commander in chief.
In a March 2 MSNBC interview, former Obama administration official Evelyn Farkas pretty much admitted that there was an all-out effort to gather and leak as much “intel” on Trump as possible ahead of the transition to Trump. Farkas served in the Obama administration from 2012 through 2015 as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia.
“I was urging my former colleagues, and frankly speaking, the people on the Hill — it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people,” Farkas said. “’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.”
In an admission that went unnoticed, partly because it came prior to Trump’s tweet and largely because it was made on MSNBC, Farkas continued.
“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 staff, the Trump staff’s dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those 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 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 trying to also help get information to the Hill.
This is very, very important. Farkas is admitting surveillance of Trump and his associates took place. She is admitting intelligence leaking took…….
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