Russian Federation has repeatedly denied any meddling in the election and the Trump administration denies allegations of collusion with Russian Federation.
Former acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates said on Monday she warned the White House in January that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn had been compromised and could have been vulnerable to blackmail by Russian Federation.
The White House is trying to spin their not firing National Security Adviser Michael Flynn after acting Attorney General Sally Yates reported to them that Flynn was compromised by his contacts with Russian Federation. Once again, he categorically denied his administration has anything to do with Russian Federation.
But Yates had intelligence showing otherwise.
Ms Yates, who was sacked on Jan 30 after defying Mr Trump over his contested travel ban, did not say what Mr Flynn discussed with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in a number of phone calls last December, which were secretly monitored by USA intelligence.
Flynn had multiple contacts with Kislyak during the transition, including an in-person meeting at New York's Trump Tower that was also attended by the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. She had been scheduled to appear in March before the House intelligence committee, but that hearing was canceled.
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We've had a couple of these public congressional hearings on Russian Federation this year.
- Former President Jimmy Carter revealed that his Democratic presidential choice was Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse did Monday.
".So this hearing indicated that the Trump White House protected a national security adviser who lied and who could be compromised by Moscow, that Trump can no longer cite Clapper to claim there was no collusion, and that United States intelligence had sensitive information on interactions between Trump associates and possible Russian agents as early as late 2015". Those names are usually kept secret but can be unmasked. Which raised the question: who "unmasked".
Ms. Yates refused to discuss the details, citing confidentiality reasons, and stuck to the formulation that Mr. Flynn's "underlying conduct" made him susceptible to Russian blackmail.
Both Clapper and Yates were asked if they had been the source of or had authorized any leaks to the media of classified information. "When a foreign power interferes in our election, it doesn't matter who they targeted", he said. Republicans seemed intent on getting to the bottom of who did. Things that people have said privately about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn were said in public under oath.
She told senators Monday that she thought the ban was "unlawful" and that she couldn't defend it in court. John Cornyn (R-TX).
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