March 31, 2017
THE UR ALWAYS WAS TOO APOLITICAL:
White House, Fox News are now blaming an ex-Obama Pentagon Russia expert for the Trump leaks (Peter Weber, 3/31/17, The Week)
Republicans and the Trump White House have been turning to the same winning strategy, trying to focus on the leakers instead of the material about Russia being leaked, and their latest target is Evelyn Farkas, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia until September 2015. [...]CNN contributor and vocal Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord reached out to Farkas, a fellow alumnus of Franklin and Marshall College, offering to let her tell her side of the story. She did, writing in The American Spectator that the edited video was "a wild misinterpretation of comments I made on the air." She is, she noted, "out of government, I didn't have any classified information, or any knowledge of 'tapping' or leaking or the NYT article before it came out. But I knew well from my time in government how the Russians operated and... I wanted to make sure that the standard procedure of White House briefing the Congress was taking place so that Congress knew everything the White House knew about what the Russians had done."
He would have served the Republic better had President Obama just declassified and released all the data on what Russia was doing.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 31, 2017 8:33 AM