Obama Defense Official Evelyn Farkas Admitted She Lied - About - Evidence Of Collusion

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Obama Defense Official Evelyn Farkas Admitted She Lied On MSNBC About
Having Evidence Of Collusion
'I didn't know anything.'
MAY 8, 2020 By Sean Davis

Former Obama administration defense official Evelyn Farkas testified
under oath that she lied during an MSNBC interview when she claimed to
have evidence of alleged collusion, a newly declassified congressional
transcript of her testimony shows. Farkas testified before the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on June 26, 2017, as part of
the committee’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election between Donald Trump and former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton.

Lawmakers keyed in on an appearance Farkas made on MSNBC on March 2,
2017, in which she urged intelligence community bureaucrats to
disseminate within the government and potentially even leak to media any
incriminating information they had about Trump or his aides.

“I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the
senior [Obama administration] people who left…[that] it would be hidden
away in the bureaucracy,” Farkas said.

Farkas, who served in the Obama administration as the deputy assistant
secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia from 2012 through
2015, also claimed that administration officials appointed by Trump
might even destroy evidence of alleged collusion if they “found out how
we knew what we knew about the Trump staff’s dealing with Russians.”

They might “try to compromise those sources and methods,” Farkas alleged
in the MSNBC interview. “And we would no longer have access to that
intelligence.”

“Not enough was coming out into the open and I knew there was more,”
Farkas claimed.

But Farkas sang a different tone under oath when questioned by lawmakers
about what she actually “knew” about collusion.

“Why don’t we go back to that sentence that I just asked you about. It
says ‘the Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about
their staff dealing with Russians,” Gowdy said. “Well, how would you
know what the U.S. government knew at that point? You didn’t work for
it, did you?”

“I didn’t,” said Farkas, a former mid-level Russia analyst who left the
federal government in 2015.

“Then how did you know?” Gowdy responded.

“I didn’t know anything,” Farkas said.

“Did you have information connecting the Trump campaign to the hack of
the DNC?” Gowdy asked.

“No,” Farkas admitted.

“So when you say, ‘We knew,’ the reality is you knew nothing,” Gowdy
asked later during the deposition.

“Correct,” Farkas responded.

Gowdy didn’t stop there.

“So when you say ‘knew,’ what you really meant was felt?” he asked.

“Correct,” Farkas answered.

“You didn’t know anything?” Gowdy continued.

“That’s correct,” Farkas responded.

Farkas, a Democrat, is currently running for Congress in New York’s 17th
district.

Sean Davis is the co-founder of The Federalist.
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