Former Obama aide and advisor to Hillary Clinton, Evelyn Farkas, divulged on MSNBC that the Obama administration had hacking intel on the Trump transition team, and she and other officials were rushing to preserve the information and get it to The Hill before Obama left office. Farkas said there was leaking because they were worried the intelligence would leave with the senior Obama officials and become hidden away in the bureaucracy.
Gathering intel on Russians is not a crime in America. However, surveilling Americans, unmasking their identity and revealing that information is a felony.
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