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wishstar

(5,269 posts)
Mon Jun 19, 2017, 08:47 PM Jun 2017

House Dems pry into reported Flynn, Saudi Russia energy deal CNN

Source: CNN

CNN) —
"A pair of top House Democrats are digging into whether former national security adviser Michael Flynn may have misled officials on his security clearance firm about two Middle East trips -- including one reportedly about building $100 billion worth of nuclear energy plants with help from Russia's nuclear power agency.

The top Democrats on the House oversight committee and the House foreign affairs committee sent a request to Flynn's lawyers -- as well as two consultants -- seeking additional documents about a summer 2015 trip he took to the Middle East to float a nuclear energy deal involving Russia.

The letter cites a recent Newsweek article detailing Flynn's previously undisclosed trip and a plan that involved Saudi Arabia selling energy from the nuclear projects to US allies in the Middle East and a promise from those Gulf countries to purchase $100 billion in arms from Russia that otherwise would have been sold to Iran.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the oversight committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the foreign affairs committee, also asked for more details about an October 2015 trip Flynn took to the Middle East, citing details from Flynn's security clearance, including what Flynn told investigators. The hotel Flynn says he stayed at does not exist, and there is no record of a travel companion he took with him, Cummings and Engel wrote."

Read more: http://www.wesh.com/article/house-dems-pry-into-reported-flynn-saudi-russia-energy-deal/10044979



Plot thickens daily- makes Trump's attempts to shut down Flynn investigation even more suspicious
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House Dems pry into reported Flynn, Saudi Russia energy deal CNN (Original Post) wishstar Jun 2017 OP
Was Flynn active duty in 2015? SHRED Jun 2017 #1
He retired in 2014. n/t pnwmom Jun 2017 #3
Retired generals are still bound by law to PRE-clear certain foreign contacts with Pentagon. & Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #6
Ignoring all the laws and privatizing the government while deal-making bucolic_frolic Jun 2017 #2
ABC News also reported on this today with additional details in their article: wishstar Jun 2017 #4
Reporters report angrychair Jun 2017 #5

bucolic_frolic

(43,161 posts)
2. Ignoring all the laws and privatizing the government while deal-making
Mon Jun 19, 2017, 08:51 PM
Jun 2017

means the United States would become United States, Inc. a wholly owned
subsidiary of the Rethuglican Party

angrychair

(8,699 posts)
5. Reporters report
Mon Jun 19, 2017, 10:20 PM
Jun 2017

Illegal and unethical conduct but they are the bad guys.

The partisan double standards is mind numbingly obvious.

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