Former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn faced fresh scrutiny on Wednesday when the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee formally requested the White House, FBI, Defense Department and Director of National Intelligence surrender all documents related to his foreign contacts and payments.
Last month the former general resigned as Mr. Trump’s top security aide following reports he misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about his dealings with Russia during the transition.
The letter, dated March 22, specially seeks information related to Mr. Flynn’s communications with Russian, Turkish, or other foreign sources, including the Kremlin-backed media outlet RT and the speakers’ bureau, Leading Authorities Inc., which RT used to pay Mr. Flynn an appearance commission at an event in Russia.
Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican, and ranking member Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat, requested all related documents from between Mr. Flynn’s departure as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 to the present day. They wrote that they want a response by April 3.
The committee request came as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee asserted that multiple Trump transition officials were “unmasked” by the intelligence community in what could be repeated violations of federal secrecy laws.
The information was all gathered legally, Rep. Devin Nunes said, but at some point multiple Trump officials’ names were attached to the information gathered by the intelligence community. That could be a violation of law, depending on the reasons for it.
• Stephen Dinan contributed to this report.
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