Back on March 2’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Evelyn Farkas, deputy assistant secretary of defense under Obama, backed up a March 1 New York Times report revealing an effort to gather as much intelligence on then-President-elect Donald Trump and his campaign and transition team’s ties to Russia.

“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.
“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.”

There has been zero evidence produced to date proving any collusion between Trump’s campaign and the Russians. On anything. This despite nearly a year of investigation into the matter. Meanwhile, there was lots of evidence of cooperation between Hillary Clinton’s team and the Russians – for example, there’s John Podesta’s ownership of 75,000 shares and a spot on the board of a company controlled by the Kremlin, which he never disclosed despite the fact he had a job as a senior advisor to Obama and was more or less running Clinton’s presidential campaign.
As Trey Gowdy noted on Tucker Carlson’s show last night, the idea that American citizens could be incidentally picked up in communications intercepted with foreign sources is not particularly earth-shattering – that happens all the time and there’s a procedure for handling it. Their identities are “masked” by the intelligence agencies intercepting the communications in order to protect their rights as the communications are shared among the responsible government agencies.

(h/t Fox News)

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