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*Evelyn Farkas tells Warsaw Security Forum "if Donald Trump were elected I believe he would be impeached pretty quickly or somebody else would have to take over government. And I am not even joking."<ref>https://youtu.be/pl_RATH89UM</ref> Farkas, who left government in Sept. 2015, later admitted to being the recipient of intelligence information on Donald Trump in the summer of 2016: "last summer I was getting winks and hints from inside that there was something really wrong here." At the forum Farkas discussed the rise of Trump from a purely domestic, partisan, political perspective and urged something must be done to counter the forces of [[nationalism]] and [[populism]].<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/08/ex-state-staffer-who-advocated-spying-on-trump-boasted-getting-winks-from-inside-obama-admin/</ref>
*Evelyn Farkas tells Warsaw Security Forum "if Donald Trump were elected I believe he would be impeached pretty quickly or somebody else would have to take over government. And I am not even joking."<ref>https://youtu.be/pl_RATH89UM</ref> Farkas, who left government in Sept. 2015, later admitted to being the recipient of intelligence information on Donald Trump in the summer of 2016: "last summer I was getting winks and hints from inside that there was something really wrong here." At the forum Farkas discussed the rise of Trump from a purely domestic, partisan, political perspective and urged something must be done to counter the forces of [[nationalism]] and [[populism]].<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/08/ex-state-staffer-who-advocated-spying-on-trump-boasted-getting-winks-from-inside-obama-admin/</ref>
*'''28 October.''' Dir. Comey reopens email investigation based on 600,000 classified State Department emails found on Anthony Weiner's computer. Attn. Gen. Loretta Lynch opposes notifying Congress, but aides persuade her firing Comey for doing so would put Lynch in the midst of a firestorm.<ref>http://thehill.com/homenews/news/330050-nyt-lynch-didnt-want-comey-to-notify-congress-on-clinton-emails</ref>
*'''28 October.''' Dir. Comey reopens email investigation based on 600,000 classified State Department emails found on Anthony Weiner's computer. Attn. Gen. Loretta Lynch opposes notifying Congress, but aides persuade her firing Comey for doing so would put Lynch in the midst of a firestorm.<ref>http://thehill.com/homenews/news/330050-nyt-lynch-didnt-want-comey-to-notify-congress-on-clinton-emails</ref> Comey's hand reluctantly was forced by agents who brought him the Clinton material off Weiner's laptop this late in the game.
*Lynch pleads 5th Amendment in probe of Obama administration illegal secret payment to Iran in random deal.<ref>http://freebeacon.com/national-security/attorney-general-lynch-pleads-fifth-secret-iran-ransom-payments/ </ref>
*Lynch pleads 5th Amendment in probe of Obama administration illegal secret payment to Iran in random deal.<ref>http://freebeacon.com/national-security/attorney-general-lynch-pleads-fifth-secret-iran-ransom-payments/ </ref>
*''New York Times'' publishes a story with the headline, ''Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link To Russia;''<ref>later FBI Director. James Comey, the name entrusted to investigate government leaks, admits to being an anonymous source for the ''New York Times''.
*''New York Times'' publishes a story with the headline, ''Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link To Russia;''<ref>later FBI Director. James Comey, the name entrusted to investigate government leaks, admits to being an anonymous source for the ''New York Times''.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html</ref>
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html</ref>
*First hint of the ''Steele dossier'' appears in print. DNC operative [[David Corn]] of ''[[Mother Jones]]'' magazine reports Steele’s allegations under the headline, ''A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump: Has the bureau investigated this material?''. Comey's surprise letter to Congress has thrown the Clinton campaign into a tailspin and contingencies are now operational: allegations of collusion between Trump and Russia.
*Senate Democratic Leader [[Harry Reid]] files complaint with FBI against Dir. Comey alleging misconduct as does former [[George W. Bush]] [[White House]] counsel Richard Painter files complaint with the Government Ethics Office alleging [[Hatch Act]] violations.<ref>http://www.voanews.com/a/fbi-director-accused-misconduct-new-emails-possibly-tied-clinton/3573504.html</ref>
*Senate Democratic Leader [[Harry Reid]] files complaint with FBI against Dir. Comey alleging misconduct as does former [[George W. Bush]] [[White House]] counsel Richard Painter files complaint with the Government Ethics Office alleging [[Hatch Act]] violations.<ref>http://www.voanews.com/a/fbi-director-accused-misconduct-new-emails-possibly-tied-clinton/3573504.html</ref>