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The ''[[Washington Post]]'' reported that by 2013, Obama’s ''Presidential Daily Briefing'' (PDB) was making its way to more than 30 recipients, including the president’s top strategic communications aide and speechwriter, and deputy secretaries of national security departments. Farkas was one such recipient.

The ''[[Washington Post]]'' reported that by 2013, Obama’s ''Presidential Daily Briefing'' (PDB) was making its way to more than 30 recipients, including the president’s top strategic communications aide and speechwriter, and deputy secretaries of national security departments. Farkas was one such recipient.

Traditionally only a few people could traditionally access the full PDB. However, under [[President Obama]] the President’s Daily Brief went to almost everyone at top levels in his administration.  Regarding the Obama PDB:

Traditionally only a few people could access the full PDB. Under Obama however the President’s Daily Brief went to almost everyone at top levels in his administration.  Regarding the Obama PDB:

{{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.

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.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-documents-reveal-state-department-provided-classified-records-sen-ben-cardin-undermine-president-trump/</ref> By her own admission she continued to receive 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.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-documents-reveal-state-department-provided-classified-records-sen-ben-cardin-undermine-president-trump/</ref> By her own admission she continued to receive 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>}}  

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.<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 people outside the [[Executive Branch]] - Congressional staff which numbers into the tens of thousands. Many staffers have press contacts and are sources 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 full of speculation.

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 people outside the [[Executive Branch]] - Congressional staff which numbers into the tens of thousands. Many staffers have press contacts and are sources 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 full of speculation.