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May 3, 2017

Fmr. Acting AG Sally Yates to Testify to Senate Panel Next Week
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Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates is slated to testify before a
Senate panel next week, in which she'll reiterate that she warned the
White House about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn nearly
three weeks before he was fired. Yates says she told White House Counsel
Don Mc Gahn on January 26 that Flynn was lying both publicly and
privately about whether he'd discussed U.S. sanctions on Russia in his
conversation with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December, and
that she thought these lies made Flynn vulnerable to being blackmailed.
Former House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes canceled hearings
in March in apparent efforts to block Yates's testimony, after she and
former CIA head John Brennan, who was slated to testify at the same
hearing, informed the government they would contradict some statements
that White House officials had made.


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