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House committee asks for documents on Michael Flynn's foreign contacts
Source: The Guardian and agencies
House committee asks for documents on Michael Flynn's foreign contacts
Request for details about former national security adviser’s dealings
with foreign governments comes after reports he did not sign lobbying
ethics pledge
Staff and agencies
Wednesday 22 March 2017 17.35 GMT
A House committee wants the White House and Trump administration officials to detail all the payments and contacts that former national security adviser Michael Flynn had with foreign government representatives spanning the past three years.
The bipartisan letter by top members of the House oversight and government reform committee came as the Daily Beast reported that Flynn did not sign an ethics pledge the Trump administration had said would apply to all appointees.
The pledge was intended to stop all federal appointees lobbying their former colleagues for five years after leaving government, and to bar them from lobbying for foreign governments for life. A spokesman for Flynn told the Daily Beast he did not sign the pledge.
Flynn resigned in February after just four weeks as national security adviser when it came to light that he had misled the vice-president, Mike Pence, about phone conversations with the Russian ambassador about sanctions in December. The resignation came after a flow of intelligence leaks revealed that he had secretly discussed sanctions with the ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, and then tried to cover up the conversations.
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Request for details about former national security adviser’s dealings
with foreign governments comes after reports he did not sign lobbying
ethics pledge
Staff and agencies
Wednesday 22 March 2017 17.35 GMT
A House committee wants the White House and Trump administration officials to detail all the payments and contacts that former national security adviser Michael Flynn had with foreign government representatives spanning the past three years.
The bipartisan letter by top members of the House oversight and government reform committee came as the Daily Beast reported that Flynn did not sign an ethics pledge the Trump administration had said would apply to all appointees.
The pledge was intended to stop all federal appointees lobbying their former colleagues for five years after leaving government, and to bar them from lobbying for foreign governments for life. A spokesman for Flynn told the Daily Beast he did not sign the pledge.
Flynn resigned in February after just four weeks as national security adviser when it came to light that he had misled the vice-president, Mike Pence, about phone conversations with the Russian ambassador about sanctions in December. The resignation came after a flow of intelligence leaks revealed that he had secretly discussed sanctions with the ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, and then tried to cover up the conversations.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/22/michael-flynn-ethics-pledge-foreign-contacts-house-oversight
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Related: Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Didn’t Sign Trump’s Ethics Pledge (The Daily Beast)