Did Evelyn Farkas Just Leak Information Confirming President Obama Spied on President Trump?
http://www.snopes.com/2017/03/30/evelyn-farkas-leak/
Evelyn Farkas' 2 March 2017 MSNBC interview was decoupled from its context involving a 1 March 2017 article about efforts to preserve Obama-era intelligence.
By snopes.com staff
Mar 30th, 2017
On 28 March 2017, an interview between Evelyn Farkas (former Obama administration Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia and Ukraine) and MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski began circulating alongside rumors Farkas “leaked” confirmation that the former President “spied” on then-candidate Donald Trump.
By the next day, “Evelyn Farkas” was a trending topic on Twitter and the subject of numerous blog posts claiming she had “leaked” or revealed novel information proving that the Obama administration illegally or secretly spied on President Trump prior to his inauguration. Fox News noted in their reporting of the interview that it had taken place nearly four weeks earlier (2 March 2017):
In an appearance on MSNBC earlier this month, Farkas told Mika Brezinski about her role in the efforts to collect intelligence on Trump’s team, and their alleged ties with Russia, in the Obama adminstration’s final days........................
.............Nothing said or repeated by Evelyn Farkas on 2 March 2017 was novel or ostensibly more revealing than the New York Times article published just before her interview,
and Farkas described the actions of Washington operatives (not President Obama) to preserve extant intelligence about Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election (not to spy on Donald Trump).
We have attempted to contact Evelyn Farkas but have not yet received a response.
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