Senate intel panel subpoenas Flynn
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate intelligence committee subpoenaed former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn for documents related to the panel’s investigation into Russia’s election meddling.
Sen. Richard Burr, the Republican chairman, and Sen. Mark Warner, the committee’s Democratic vice chairman, issued a joint statement saying the panel decided to issue the subpoena after Flynn, through his lawyer, declined to cooperate with an April 28 request to turn over the documents.
Flynn and other associates of US President Donald Trump have received similar requests from the committee for infor- mation and documents over the past few weeks.
Copies of request letters sent to longtime Trump associate Roger Stone and former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page were shared with The Associated Press.
Those letters, which were nearly identical, sought emails, text messages, letters, phone records or any other relevant information they have about meetings or contacts that they or any other individual affiliated with the Trump campaign had with Russian officials or representatives of Russian business interests.
They also ask for information about any financial or real estate holdings related to Russia, including any since divested or sold.
Stone, Page, Flynn and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort all received similar requests for information, a person familiar with the Senate investigation said.
That person spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the details of the committee’s investigation.
The requests sent to Stone and Page covered documents and information from June 2015 through Jan. 20 of this year.
During that period, Flynn accepted tens of thousands of dollars from a Russian statesponsored television network.