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Yates: Flynn Was 'Compromised With Respect To The Russians'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published MAY 8, 2017 3:25 PM
Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified Monday that she first warned the White House days after inauguration that ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn had misled members of the Trump administration about his contacts with Russian officials, and that Russia knew about those conversations.
“We felt like it was critical that we get this information to the White House because, in part, the Vice President was unknowingly making false statements to the public, and because we believed that Gen. Flynn was compromised with respect to the Russians,” Yates said in a hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on crime and terrorism.
Yates said she and a member of the Justice Department’s national security devision met with White House Counsel Don McGahn in his office on Jan. 26 to let him know that Vice President Mike Pence and other administration officials were going on the record with comments about Flynn’s contacts with Russia “that we knew to be untrue.”
She declined to describe how DOJ learned that Flynn was lying to the White House, saying that information was classified. Yates said she also informed McGahn that the FBI interviewed Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, and declined to answer McGahn’s question about how he “did.”
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‘The Russians also knew’: Sally Yates confirms she warned White House that Flynn could be blackmailed
BRAD REED
08 MAY 2017 AT 15:18 ET
During testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday, former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said she had two in-person meetings and one phone call where she warned Trump administration officials about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
Yates said she first requested the meetings to sound the alarms about Flynn after she saw public statements by Vice President Mike Pence about Flynn’s conversations with Russian government officials that she knew not to be true.
“We told them how we had this information, how we acquired it, how we knew it to be untrue,” said Yates, who says she spoke directly to the White House Counsel about this information.
Yates said that she told White House officials that Pence deserved to know that Flynn had not been truthful about his communications with Russian officials. “We weren’t the only ones who knew all of this,” Yates said. “The Russians also knew what Gen. Flynn had done.”
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‘The Russians also knew’: Sally Yates confirms she warned White House that Flynn could be blackmailed
This story has legs...Look into manaford too as he was also working for Putin...We have a Russian traitor in the white house.
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published MAY 8, 2017 3:25 PM
Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified Monday that she first warned the White House days after inauguration that ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn had misled members of the Trump administration about his contacts with Russian officials, and that Russia knew about those conversations.
“We felt like it was critical that we get this information to the White House because, in part, the Vice President was unknowingly making false statements to the public, and because we believed that Gen. Flynn was compromised with respect to the Russians,” Yates said in a hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on crime and terrorism.
Yates said she and a member of the Justice Department’s national security devision met with White House Counsel Don McGahn in his office on Jan. 26 to let him know that Vice President Mike Pence and other administration officials were going on the record with comments about Flynn’s contacts with Russia “that we knew to be untrue.”
She declined to describe how DOJ learned that Flynn was lying to the White House, saying that information was classified. Yates said she also informed McGahn that the FBI interviewed Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, and declined to answer McGahn’s question about how he “did.”
Read more: Yates: Flynn Was 'Compromised With Respect To The Russians'
‘The Russians also knew’: Sally Yates confirms she warned White House that Flynn could be blackmailed
BRAD REED
08 MAY 2017 AT 15:18 ET
During testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday, former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said she had two in-person meetings and one phone call where she warned Trump administration officials about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
Yates said she first requested the meetings to sound the alarms about Flynn after she saw public statements by Vice President Mike Pence about Flynn’s conversations with Russian government officials that she knew not to be true.
“We told them how we had this information, how we acquired it, how we knew it to be untrue,” said Yates, who says she spoke directly to the White House Counsel about this information.
Yates said that she told White House officials that Pence deserved to know that Flynn had not been truthful about his communications with Russian officials. “We weren’t the only ones who knew all of this,” Yates said. “The Russians also knew what Gen. Flynn had done.”
more
‘The Russians also knew’: Sally Yates confirms she warned White House that Flynn could be blackmailed
This story has legs...Look into manaford too as he was also working for Putin...We have a Russian traitor in the white house.
