Breaking News: The Inspector General has opened Flynn investigation

Posted on April 27, 2017 by SouthernGirl2

(CNN)Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was warned by the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 against accepting foreign payments as he entered retirement, according to new documents obtained by the House oversight committee.

The inspector general of the Department of Defense also opened an investigation of Flynn earlier this month, according to an April 11 letter released by the oversight committee Thursday.

“These documents raise grave questions about why General Flynn concealed the payments he received from foreign sources after he was warned explicitly by the Pentagon,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House oversight committee, in a statement. “Our next step is to get the documents we are seeking from the White House so we can complete our investigation. I thank the Department of Defense for providing us with unclassified versions of these documents.”

The news comes two days after Cummings and House oversight chairman Jason Chaffetz said Flynn may have broken the law by not disclosing payments he received from RT-TV, a station widely considered to be a propaganda arm of the Russian government.

Flynn’s lawyer, Robert Kelner, had previously said that Flynn briefed the DIA on his speech to RT and the payments, but Cummings said Thursday that another document that was declassified this week shows no evidence to support that statement.

Flynn resigned from being Trump’s national security adviser in February, after it was revealed he misled Vice President Mike Pence over conversations he had with with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak regarding sanctions. Before becoming his national security adviser, Flynn advised Trump’s presidential campaign.

Flynn is just one component of at least four separate congressional investigations related to Russia’s meddling in the US election last year. Flynn offered to speak with congressional investigators last month on the condition of being granted immunity from prosecution, an offer no committee has yet apparently taken Flynn up on.

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32 Responses to Breaking News: The Inspector General has opened Flynn investigation

  8. SouthernGirl2 says:
    April 27, 2017 at 1:21 pm

    @PressSec About blaming the Obama Administration for Michael Flynn Security clearance.

    The. Hell. You. Say.‼️

    Reply
  9. SouthernGirl2 says:
    April 27, 2017 at 1:10 pm

    Y’all see how they are? Always blaming black ppl for their fuck ups. NOT TODAY, SATAN!

    WH blames Obama Admin for Flynn security clearance.

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  10. SouthernGirl2 says:
    April 27, 2017 at 12:39 pm

    Carter Page Went to Moscow With a Tape of Donald Trump Offering Treason For Hacking

    https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/857648819630166016

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  11. SouthernGirl2 says:
    April 27, 2017 at 12:26 pm

    Trump transition was told of Flynn’s lobbying, congressman’s letter to Pence shows

    http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article137853633.html

    WASHINGTON
    The top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform told then Vice President-elect Mike Pence in a November letter that the man Donald Trump had tapped to be his national security adviser was lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.

    The letter, a copy of which was shared with McClatchy, contradicts White House claims that neither Pence nor Trump knew of Michael Flynn’s lobbying until it was revealed in a Justice Department filing this week.

    In the letter, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, asked Pence, then the leader of Trump’s transition team, for information regarding Flynn’s business interests and statements regarding potential conflicts of interests.

    Cummings said Flynn’s work for Turkey and a speech Flynn gave in Russia could violate Trump for America’s code of ethics if Flynn was advising Trump on policy related to those two nations. Flynn was Trump’s principal foreign policy adviser during the campaign.

    “Lt. Gen. Flynn’s involvement in advising Mr. Trump on matters relating to Turkey or Russia – including attending classified briefings on those matters – could violate the Trump for America, Inc. Code of Ethical Conduct,” Cummings wrote.

    The Cummings’ letter, which was dated Nov. 18, the day after Trump announced that Flynn would be his national security adviser, adds to the mystery surrounding Flynn’s short tenure in the White House.

    Trump fired Flynn Feb. 13 for offering a misleading account to Pence of a conversation he’d had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. But that firing came three weeks after the Justice Department had warned the White House that Flynn’s conversation with Kislyak had been monitored and that a transcript contradicted Pence’s televised account of what Flynn had told him had been discussed.

    Trump moved against Flynn only after the Washington Post had revealed the Justice Department warning a few hours earlier.

    Flynn’s lobbying for Turkey came to light this week when he belatedly registered with the Justice Department’s Foreign Agent Registration Unit and acknowledged that he’d been paid $530,000 for work from August to November that might have benefited Turkey’s government.

    On Thursday, White House press spokesman Sean Spicer said Trump had been unaware of Flynn’s lobbying when he named him national security adviser. For his part, Pence told Fox News that he had heard about Flynn’s work for Turkey only after Flynn’s Justice Department filing this week.

    But Cummings’ letter contradicts both versions.

    Pence’s office did not respond to a request for comment. On Friday, Spicer acknowledged that Flynn’s attorney had raised a possibility of filing as a lobbyist with the transition team but that officials there did not advise him what to do.

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  18. vitaminlover says:
    April 27, 2017 at 11:43 am

    Crime just doesn’t pay. It will catch up with you.

    Reply
  24. SouthernGirl2 says:
    April 27, 2017 at 10:13 am

    Jeff Sessions Criminal Complaint – Perjury, False Statements, Cover Up

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