03 June, 2017
Cohen earlier rejected a House intelligence committee request for information. The Senate has already issued subpoenas to Flynn personally, and to his businesses.
Cohen, who had refused an earlier request for information, saying it was "not capable of being answered", told the AP on Tuesday that he would comply with subpoenas, should they be issued.
The committee had issued subpoenas for documents from two businesses Flynn operated - Flynn Intel LLC and Flynn Intel, Inc. - with a list of documents they wanted after Flynn stonewalled the panel. All three reports cited sources close to Flynn.
Trump abruptly fired Comey as head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on May 9. Kushner is under scrutiny in the FBI's Russian Federation probe.
Mueller's investigation could include a look at the circumstances of Comey's firing, especially since Trump has said publicly that he was thinking of "this Russian Federation thing" when he made the move. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.
Read the bipartisan statement from Reps. Devin Nunes (R-Tulare), had approved three subpoenas without their knowledge.
The panel, headed by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., issued four subpoenas relating to the actual Russian Federation investigation, both The Wall Street Journal and Reuters reported. Those subpoenas reportedly went to Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, his United Nations ambassador, Samantha Power, and his Central Intelligence Agency director, John Brennan.
Cohen said Tuesday that he had declined to participate in both the House and Senate intelligence committee investigations.
Nunes subsequently admitted he had received the information in the White House complex, explaining it was the only safe place to examine the classified material. That soon led to calls from Democrats, and eventually Republicans, that Nunes should consider stepping aside in the Russian investigation.
In most cases, the identities of USA citizens picked up in such surveillance are supposed to be kept confidential in intelligence reports.
USA privacy laws and intelligence regulations require that Americans' names picked up in foreign communications intercepts be concealed unless senior officials request them to be disclosed for intelligence or law enforcement purposes.
Flynn was forced to resign February 13, the day before the conversation between Trump and Comey depicted in the memo. Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, was also present at the December meeting, the White House previously acknowledged. It reported that Cohen was involved in a back-channel plan, which never came to fruition, that would have involved a peace agreement between Russian Federation and Ukraine, and the lifting of US sanctions against Moscow. Andrew Weissmann had been head of the criminal division's fraud section since 2015.
Also Wednesday, a Justice Department official confirmed that Mueller had named a top Justice Department official to his team.
