The unmasking of Joe Biden
By Jonathan Turley, opinion contributor — 05/14/20 10:00 AM EDT
The declassification of material from the Michael Flynn case has exposed more chilling details of a concerted effort by prosecutors to come up with any crime to use against the former national security adviser. This week, however, a letter revealed a new unsettling detail. Among more than three dozen Obama administration officials asking to “unmask†Flynn from the investigation was former Vice President Joe Biden. This revelation came less than 24 hours after Biden denied any involvement in the investigation of Flynn. It also follows a disclosure that President Obama was following that investigation.
For three years, many in the media have expressed horror at the idea of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. We now know there never was credible evidence of such collusion. In recently released transcripts, a long list of Obama administration officials admitted they never saw any evidence of such collusion — none. That included the testimony of Evelyn Farkas, a former Obama security adviser who was widely quoted in her public plea for Congress to gather the evidence that she learned of as part of the Obama administration.
The media widely covered her alarm that this evidence would be lost “if they found out how we knew what we knew about their, the staff, the Trump staff’s, dealing with Russians.†Yet, in her previously classified testimony under oath, she repeatedly said “I didn’t know anything.†(Farkas is now running for Congress in New York and highlighting her role in raising “the alarm†over Russian collusion.
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