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:::quote::: Sally Yates’s tenure as the Trump administration’s acting attorney general was short-lived but eventful. A holdover from the Obama Justice Department, Yates didn’t make it two weeks before she was dismissed for refusing to defend Trump’s first travel ban. But before she departed, she warned White House counsel Donald McGahn that National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had misled his superiors about his preelection conversation with the Russian ambassador to the United States. Weeks later, word of that warning leaked to the press — and Flynn promptly resigned.

Earlier this month, the House Intelligence Committee invited Yates to share her account of those developments, in an open hearing on the Putin government’s alleged interference in the 2016 election. Such testimony might conceivably touch on why the Trump administration waited weeks after Yates’s warning to oust Flynn.

Yates accepted the committee’s invitation.

Then, the Trump...See More
EasTexSteve On 3/28/17, Chalky wrote: > > :::quote:::

> Weeks later, word of that warning leaked to the press -- and > Flynn promptly resigned.

Such testimony might conceivably touch on why > the Trump administration waited weeks after Yates's warning to > oust Flynn.

OK, which is it? Did he resign or was he ousted...See More
Mar 28, 2017
Chalky On 3/28/17, EasTexSteve wrote: > On 3/28/17, Chalky wrote: >> >> :::quote::: > >> Weeks later, word of that warning leaked to the press -- > and >> Flynn promptly resigned. > > Such testimony might conceivably touch on why >> the Trump administration waited weeks after Yates's warning > to >> ou...See More
Mar 28, 2017


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