Lawmakers Say Michael Flynn Broke the Law, WH Refuses to Comply with Investigation


Lawmakers Say Michael Flynn Broke the Law, WH Refuses to Comply with Investigation

Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Host of Hardline Radio Show

The White House is refusing to comply with a request from the House Government Oversight Committee for documents regarding former National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn.

The committee wanted to obtain a copy of Flynn’s application for security clearance foreign contact references, receipts for foreign payments and the administrations permission allowing Flynn to take those payments.

In response, Donald Trump’s administration has stated they are “unable to accommodate” their request on the grounds that it relates to Flynn’s business dealings before he joined the White House staff.

The White House also offered differing excuses for non-compliance; including trying to pass off the request to the Department of Defense, claimed to not be in “possession, custody or control” of said documents, and in the end stating that the documents were “likely” to contain classified information and could not be released because the nature of their relevancy was not understood by the White House staff.

Congressman and chair of the House committee Jason Chaffetz and ranking member Rep Elijah Cummings asserted that “newly provided classified documents show that President Trump’s former national security adviser, Mike Flynn, may have broken the law when he failed to seek U.S. government permission or to disclose his acceptance of payments from a media organization considered to be an arm of the Russian government.”

Chaffetz said: “As a former military officer, you simply cannot take money from Russia, Turkey, or anybody else, and it appears as if he did take that money. It was inappropriate. And there are repercussions for the violation of law.”

Flynn was paid tens of thousands of dollars for speaking engagements he attended in Russia; as well as a paid contributor to the Kremlin-funded news outlet Russia Today (RT).

He also worked as a handsomely paid lobbyist for the Turkish government nearly simultaneously and while he was working for Trump’s campaign, on up to his firing from the administration.


Susanne Posel

Susanne Posel



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