Classified info given to Democratic senator days before inauguration

President Obama (White House photo)

The Washington watchdog Judicial Watch released 42 pages of State Department documents Wednesday, asserting they provide evidence that the Obama administration was trying to undermine Donald Trump’s upcoming administration.

The documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, contain classified information that was provided just before Trump’s Jan. 20, 2017, inauguration to Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an outspoken critic of Trump.

The documents detail Russian political interference in elections and politics in countries across Europe.

“These documents show the Obama State Department under John Kerry gathered and sent its own dossier of classified information on Russia to Senator Ben Cardin, a political ally in the U.S. Senate, to undermine President Trump,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

He said Judicial Watch “will pursue information on who pulled this classified information, who authorized its release, and why was it evidently dumped just days before President Trump’s inauguration.”

Farkas was worried “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.”

A section of the newly released documents titled “Pro-Kremlin NGOs and Think Tanks,” marked as sensitive, discusses the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative, founded by Natalia Veselnitskaya, which was working to erode support for the Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law that imposes sanctions on human rights violations.

Veselnitskaya was at the center of the controversial meeting with Donald Trump Jr. during the election campaign.

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