Senate Intel Committee Subpoenas Michael Flynn in Russia Probe
Source: NBC
President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, was subpoenaed by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
The committee, led by Sens. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, and Mark Warner, D-Virginia, said it also requested documents that members believe to be relevant to its investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
The committee initially requested the documents from Flynn in a letter on April 28, but he declined to comply. The Intelligence Committee has now followed up with an official subpoena.
This is the first time the Intelligence Committee has used its subpoena power since the joint inquiry into the terrorist attacks of Sept. 1, 2001, and it's the first time it has subpoenaed documents since the 1970s, a Senate historian told NBC News.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/senate-intel-committee-subpoenas-michael-flynn-russia-probe-n757661
murielm99
(30,745 posts)Will they jail him?
Is he holding out for immunity?
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,011 posts)marybourg
(12,633 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)But, there is zero precedent on the power of the executive to use pardon power on a Congressional penalty, and it would have to be decided by a Supreme Court that just tilted against us.
Under the axiom that hard cases make bad precedents, I can see Congress (even Democratic members) refusing to put the screws to Flynn under the present circumstances. And as long as the GOP is more frightened of Trump than repulsed by him, they will block any efforts to exact penalties against Flynn.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)It's not like he wouldn't lie again.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)dhill926
(16,343 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)Only now does Senator Burr sound like he might actually do something
knowing it will be too late by the time the Senate Intelligence Committee
gains enough knowledge to do anything.
We stand at a precipice of free speech suppression. Knowledge is disappearing,
being destroyed, removed from public view, the power grab is underway. What
is it people don't understand about that?
Hestia
(3,818 posts)forwarded them to the proper bureau, in order that they couldn't be suppressed or lost. The indexing was to show that the reports existed somewhere and there was a copy of it. Rachel Maddow had a show about this back in January. (I know, I know, so much as happened in this short time, that it can be hard to remember what was reported when.)
snooper2
(30,151 posts)bump for this thread
briv1016
(1,570 posts)My money's on every Dem senators' questions.