Talk:Evelyn Farkas

If this is a biography, where are her birth & educational years?

I know the DOD source lacks them as well, but are there no other sources?

--IfYouDoIfYouDon't (talk) 09:01, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Languages

I wonder if the list of languages is fully complete. She was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia... Wouldn't she have learned some significant amount of Russian and possibly Ukrainian? (If she speaks "some Serbo-Croatian", especially if she reads Serbian in Cyrillic letters, she can probably find her way pretty well in those "missing" languages. →Isn't there some source for this info on her?)--IfYouDoIfYouDon't (talk) 09:11, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Serbo-Croatian and Bosnian are not different languages. You can call them "BCS" (Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian) or, to use an older term, Serbo-Croatian, but the way it's written now sounds like she speaks English and Australian English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.244.26.41 (talk) 14:51, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Obama Administration's Rush To Gather and Widely Disseminate Intelligence On Incoming Trump Administration

March 2, 2017, while appearing as an analyst on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe", Evelyn Farkas, deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Obama administration admitted to, and elaborated on, covert efforts and plans by her former colleagues in the Obama Administration to gather and widely disseminate intelligence on the incoming Trump Administration. Fearing that the incoming President-elect's Administration would subvert the information and methods of intelligence gathering, Farkas detailed the Administration's motives for the activity, rule changes, and leaks.

“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,” Farkas, who is now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, said. “Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior [Obama] 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 Trump staff dealing with Russians – that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we no longer have access to that intelligence ... So I became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and I knew that there was more. We have very good intelligence on Russia," she said. "So then I had talked to some of my former colleagues and I knew that they were trying to also help get information to the Hill."

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Article seriously defective

This article is a joke. I don't see when Farkas entered State and when she left. Surely that information wouldn't be that hard to find. Or was it scrubbed?

I have one source that says as early as September 2015. If so, how did she have access to classified information in January 2017? Nobs01 (talk) 00:01, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

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Role in Trump-Russia investigation

 The revision of 19 May 2020 to remove Fox-sourced attempts to use out-of-context quotes of Farkas is appropriate. I think pro-Trump editors will continue to attempt to insert statements of this kind in this article. I think the best way to inoculate the article against such incursions is to include a section on the events in question, from unbiased sources, such as NYT and Snopes. Paulmlieberman (talk) 13:46, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

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Edits regarding Ms. Farkas Involvement in Controversy

The removed edit was composed of several statements Evelyn Farkas made. The edits quoted her exact statements within the scope of the given context. All statements were supported by unimpeachable references which contained the same quotes (one reference was a video of Ms. Farkas speaking the quoted material). Ms. Farkas, as a national security advisor to the US government was a public figure. However, She made the first statement as a consultant on a public TV show (link to MSNBC video provided). The second statement was a complete reversal of position and was made in sworn testimony to a US Congressional committee (link to official US Congressional testimony provided). Ms. Farkas made these remarks freely and without duress. As a national security officer, her duties and responsibilities to the public must be performed with the utmost honestly, without bias or prejudice. Making unsupportable accusations, then later, privately and under oath recanting everything she stated shows a complete disregard for integrity and a questionable character. Any impugning of character is wholly self-induced. Furthermore, Ms. Farkas is currently a candidate for public office, as such she has laid her government performance and remarks open to public scrutiny. Reasons given for editing the page are incorrect and insincere in the least. I challenge anyone to find any falsehood, remarks taken out-of-context, or any link to Fox News (as if that has standing). These questionable edit were removed by the following contributors: Prolog, NorthBySouthBaranof and Tappatappa23. All edits and history has been archived.

Summation of Removed Edit

Regards the Trump Administration’s alleged ties with Russia, Ms. Farkas stated, “I was urging my former colleagues and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill... get as much information as you can," Farkas said, adding that her big fear was "if [Trump staffers] found out how we knew what we knew about their ... the Trump staff dealing with Russians – that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we no longer have access to that intelligence.”

Later in her closed-door testimony to Congress, Ms. Farkas responding to the following question from MR. GOWDY: “All right. So if you had to do this interview all over again, you would say, I know nothing other than what your viewers are reading in the paper and watching on television, and I have no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, conspired, or coordinated with the Russians?” MS. FARKAS: “Correct.” MR. GOWDY: “That’s what you would say if you were being interviewed now?” MS. FARKAS: “Yeah.”

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