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{{Quotebox|"But while through most of its history the document has been marked “For the President’s Eyes Only,” the PDB has never gone to the president alone. The most restricted dissemination was in the early 1970s, when the book went only to President [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Henry Kissinger]], who was dual-hatted as [[national security adviser]] and secretary of state.
{{Quotebox|"But while through most of its history the document has been marked “For the President’s Eyes Only,” the PDB has never gone to the president alone. The most restricted dissemination was in the early 1970s, when the book went only to President [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Henry Kissinger]], who was dual-hatted as [[national security adviser]] and secretary of state.
In other administrations, the circle of readers has also included the vice president, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with additional White House staffers.<ref>
In other administrations, the circle of readers has also included the vice president, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with additional White House staffers.<ref>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-presidents-daily-brief/2016/12/29/eeb4bbec-c862-11e6-8bee-54e800ef2a63_story.html?utm_term=.7590754fb293</ref>}} CIA director [[John Brennan]] routinely funneled [[Christopher Steele]]'s "Company reports" into the PBD for fisdrminstion throughout the government. Although Farkas left the government in 2015, she retained her security clearance. By her own admission she continued to recieve classified information on [[Donald Trump]] throughout 2016 and into 2017.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-presidents-daily-brief/2016/12/29/eeb4bbec-c862-11e6-8bee-54e800ef2a63_story.html?utm_term=.7590754fb293</ref>}} CIA director [[John Brennan]] routinely funneled [[Christopher Steele]]'s "Company reports" into the PBD for disseminationon throughout the government. Although Farkas left the government in 2015, she retained her security clearance. By her own admission she continued to recieve classified information on [[Donald Trump]] throughout 2016 and into 2017.
On March 2, 2017 Farkas, while interviewed on [[MSNBC]]'s ''Morning Joe'', a smoking gun went off: {{Quotebox|“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. Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior 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 staff, the Trump staff's dealing with [[Russia]]ns, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods... So I became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and I knew that there was more."<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mike-ciandella/2017/03/30/former-obama-official-stumbles-while-trying-backtrack-after</ref>}}
Farkas' use of "people on the hill" refers to Congressional staff which numbers into the tens of thousands, some of which have press contacts and are the source of leaks. Once the materials fell into their hands, many partisan staffers then became armchair counter-intelligence sleuths, combing through the leaked material, feeding their mainstream sources with their latest pet theories on Donald Trump being in the pay of the [[KGB]], and taking to [[Twitter]] threads with extended narratives documenting their speculation.
==See also==
==See also==