Politics
Mike Flynn Won’t Comply With Senate Subpoena
By Byron Tau May 22, 2017
WASHINGTON—Former national security adviser Mike Flynn will decline to cooperate with a Senate subpoena, invoking his constitutional right against self incrimination and setting off a legal showdown with Congress over a key witness in its investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
According to a source close to Mr. Flynn, he will tell the Senate Intelligence Committee later Monday that he won’t comply with the panel’s request for documents, citing the Fifth Amendment’s protections against self incrimination. Mr. Flynn is willing to cooperate in exchange for some guarantee that he could avoid criminal prosecution, the source said.
The Senate Intelligence Committee issued the subpoena earlier this month.
In February, Mr. Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser after acknowledging that he misled White House officials about the nature of his phone conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential transition period.
As an adviser to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, and later one of Mr. Trump’s top aides in the White House, Mr. Flynn was privy to sensitive foreign-policy deliberations and was directly involved in discussions about the possible lifting of sanctions on Russia imposed by the Obama administration.
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