03 June, 2017
Flynn's reported acquiescence comes less than a week after his attorneys said their client would not comply with the Committee's May 10 subpoena and just hours after President Donald Trump's personal business attorney Michael Cohen's wow of non-compliance with Congress was met with the issuance of a subpoena by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The committee issued a total of seven subpoenas Wednesday - four related to the Russian Federation investigation and three seeking details of "unmasking" of U.S. residents by former national security adviser Susan Rice, former CIA Director John Brennan and former USA ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, a source said Wednesday.
It wasn't immediately clear what exactly Comey plans to tell the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, though lawmakers are certainly likely to ask Comey about his interactions with President Trump as the bureau pursued its investigation into his campaign's contacts.
Conaway took over the panel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election from California Rep. Devin Nunes.
President Donald Trump says celebrity Kathy Griffin "should be ashamed of herself" for appearing in a video holding what looked like Trump's bloody, severed head.
That branch was previously known as a USA base for Kremlin spies.
Cohen, who'd earlier refused a request for information saying it was "not capable of being answered", told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he would comply with subpoenas, should they be issued.
Nunes' role in the issuing of subpoenas has been a sore point behind the scenes in the House investigation ever since he announced he was recusing himself from leading the Russian Federation investigation.
Three others were issued to the FBI, CIA and the National Security Agency seeking information on requests that former Obama administration officials made to unmask the identities of Americans named in intelligence reports.
There is disagreement about whether those three subpoenas were issued without the knowledge of committee Democrats.
Earlier this month, a New York Times report emerged that Mr. Trump's aides knew Flynn was under investigation well before the president's inauguration. But authorized US officials can request that the names be revealed to them - a process known as "unmasking" - if knowing the name is necessary to understand the intelligence.
Trump's tweets came as his advisers are planning to establish a "war room" to combat mounting questions about communication between Russian Federation and his presidential campaign before and after November's election. In response to a question about German Chancellor Angela Merkel's sharp rebuke to Trump and call for an independent European policy, he said the relationship between Trump and the German leader was "fairly unbelievable" and insisted that they "got along very well".
There were seven subpoenas related to the investigation issued today in total: four on the Russian Federation probe and three related to unmasking requests.
