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*''[[Washington Post]]'' reports the inquiry focused on contacts Sessions had “while serving as Mr. Trump’s [[foreign policy|foreign-policy]] adviser in the '''spring''' and summer of 2016,”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/03/02/daily-202-trump-s-russia-headache-gets-worse-as-sessions-struggles-to-spin-undisclosed-meetings/58b745cae9b69b1406c75d1b/?utm_term=.9c99288fff07</ref> implying (a) surveillance occurred on a U.S. Senator,<ref>http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/nsa-whistleblower-nsa-spying-on-and-blackmailing-high-level-government-officials-and-military-officers.html</ref> and (b) surveillance may have occurred without a warrant.  

*''[[Washington Post]]'' reports the inquiry focused on contacts Sessions had “while serving as Mr. Trump’s [[foreign policy|foreign-policy]] adviser in the '''spring''' and summer of 2016,”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/03/02/daily-202-trump-s-russia-headache-gets-worse-as-sessions-struggles-to-spin-undisclosed-meetings/58b745cae9b69b1406c75d1b/?utm_term=.9c99288fff07</ref> implying (a) surveillance occurred on a U.S. Senator,<ref>http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/nsa-whistleblower-nsa-spying-on-and-blackmailing-high-level-government-officials-and-military-officers.html</ref> and (b) surveillance may have occurred without a warrant.  

*Comey testifies to a closed session of the House Intelligence Committee that, while Flynn may have had some honest failures of recollection during his FBI interview, Strzok who questioned him concluded that he did not lie.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-flynn-information-1512172863</ref><ref>http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/fbi-not-expected-to-pursue-charges-against-flynn/index.html</ref>

*'''Comey testifies''' to a closed session of the House Intelligence Committee that, '''while Flynn may have had some honest failures of recollection during his FBI interview, Strzok who questioned him concluded that he did not lie'''.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-flynn-information-1512172863</ref><ref>http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/fbi-not-expected-to-pursue-charges-against-flynn/index.html</ref>

:*Ranking Democrat Vice-Chair of the House Intelligence Committee [[Adam Schiff]] says Comey is withholding information from Congressional Overseers. Lindsey Graham says, "Somebody is leaking this crap. It's putting people like me in a terrible spot."<ref>https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-03-02/house-committee-accuses-fbi-of-withholding-information-about-russia-probe</ref>

:*Ranking Democrat Vice-Chair of the House Intelligence Committee [[Adam Schiff]] says Comey is withholding information from Congressional Overseers. Lindsey Graham says, "Somebody is leaking this crap. It's putting people like me in a terrible spot."<ref>https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-03-02/house-committee-accuses-fbi-of-withholding-information-about-russia-probe</ref>

*[[Evelyn Farkas]], the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia under Obama, while interviewed on MSNBC's ''Morning Joe'', a smoking gun went off: “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 Russians, 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 was not employed by the Obama administration at the time''' the Russian allegations arose. According to Pentagon records, Farkas resigned in September 2015.  

:*[[Evelyn Farkas]], the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia under Obama, while interviewed on MSNBC's ''Morning Joe'', a smoking gun went off: “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 Russians, 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 was not employed by the Obama administration at the time''' the Russian allegations arose. According to Pentagon records, Farkas resigned in September 2015.  

*While serving a senior [[foreign policy]] advisor for Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, both Farkas and Clinton still held security clearances outside government.<ref>https://youtu.be/xfSES06rlIU</ref>  

:*While serving a senior [[foreign policy]] advisor for Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, both Farkas and Clinton still held security clearances outside government.<ref>https://youtu.be/xfSES06rlIU</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 to document their speculation.

:*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 to document their speculation.

*As Dep. Asst. Sec. of Defense, Farkas had daily access to Obama's ''Presidential Daily Briefing'', which includes SCIF.

:*As Dep. Asst. Sec. of Defense, Farkas had daily access to Obama's ''Presidential Daily Briefing'', which includes SCIF.

*'''3 March.''' New DNC Chair [[Tom Perez]] tweets [[xenophobia|Russophobic]] slur.<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/TomPerez/status/837699013101105152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw</ref>

*'''3 March.''' New DNC Chair [[Tom Perez]] tweets [[xenophobia|Russophobic]] slur.<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/TomPerez/status/837699013101105152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw</ref>