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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>}}  

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>}}  

It is shocking that people outside of government readily admit to [[felon]]ious leaking of classified information. In January 2017 the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported {{Quotebox|"In its final days, the [[Obama administration]] has expanded the power of the [[National Security Agency]] to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections."<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/nsa-gets-more-latitude-to-share-intercepted-communications.html ]</ref>}} The expansion of the order made it difficult to narrow in on leaks. This constituted Obama's amending of Executive Order 12333.<ref>http://circa.com/politics/some-us-intelligence-officials-want-trump-to-rescind-obamas-expansion-of-nsa-data</ref>

It is shocking that people outside of government readily admit to [[felon]]ious leaking of classified information. In January 2017 the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported {{Quotebox|"In its final days, the [[Obama administration]] has expanded the power of the [[National Security Agency]] to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections."<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/nsa-gets-more-latitude-to-share-intercepted-communications.html ]</ref>}} The expansion of the order made it difficult to narrow in on leaks.<ref>http://circa.com/politics/some-us-intelligence-officials-want-trump-to-rescind-obamas-expansion-of-nsa-data</ref>

Farkas' use of the term "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 media|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.

Farkas' use of the term "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 media|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.