and now this morning. they make the whole thing public. quote, we are writing today to thank you for your responses and to request additional information. first, your responses provide multiple independent confirmations that general flynn traveled to the middle east to meet with foreign officials and business associates in june 2015 to promote this russian nuclear power project. based on your responses it appears that general flynn violated federal law by omitting this trip from his security clearance renewal application in 2016 and concealing them from security clearance investigators who interviewed him as part of his background check process. since these violations carry criminal penalties up to five years, we are providing this information to mueller. the congressman then asked for further documentation about mike flynn s communication with
today nbc sites four government officials to report that michael flynn junior is the subject of mueller s inquire as of course is michael flynn senior. today things got worse in the reporting about him. back in june, jeff stein who s really well sourced on intelligence issues, he reported for news week back in june that one of the business dealings that mike flynn senior never disclosed was a russian partner he was pitching to build 16, count them 16 nuclear power plants in saudi arabia, which needs a lot of things, but nuclear power probably isn t one of them. stein published this piece in june about mike flynn s involvement in that business plan and about flynn taking a trip to the middle east to meet with people and promote to saudi russian financed nuke deal. because mike flynn never disclosed anything about this on
foreign governments and goerners about the business deal. they asked the business associates to prepare to come in and testify before congress on these matters. but then they raise this one very provocative question. this trip to the middle east to promote this plan, these payments that flynn got to be involved in this potential deal, was this just 2015? did this thing actually end then? or did it keep going on? is it still going on? did flynn still have a hand in on this russian nuclear deal during the campaign? maybe even while he was in the white house? here s how they put it in the letter. your responses suggest that you and other officials at your companies may have discussed this matter with trump administration officials during and after mike flynn s tenure at the white house. the american people desief to know whether general flynn was secretly promoting the private businesses while he have auz a adviser, transition official or
think to mention when it came to his financial disclosures, the labs is one of at least three different russian entities that started shoveling money mike flynn s way, all payments flynn didn t disclose. today the department of homeland security band all federal agencies from using that company s software because of it having links to russian intelligence and software to help russia spy around the world. whether or not that decision to ban the use of that software, whether or not that has any relation to the russian attack on our election, it s one of the tech companies that finds itself at the center of these investigations. within the pass week, facebook has just started to admit they took russian money for ads tied to take accounts that tried to
president trump s national security adviser. big new alarming question here in terms of national security, foreign influence on our own government and corruption and conflict of interest. was the trump national security adviser mike flynn secretly pursuing or trying to advance a gigantic russian business deal or was he being paid to promote one while he was working in the white house as national security adviser? so that was that letter raising that provocative question, that letter from coming andingle, that was in my e-mail inbox at 7:30 this morning. by 3:00 this afternoon the answer had arrived in the wall street journal. see the head line flynn promoted nuclear plant project while in the white house. this prospect raised by these congress men this morning is answered and confirmed by the wall street journal this afternoon. the journal describes the russian nuclear deal of being