ATTORNEY GENERAL/RUSSIA/SALLY YATES/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates told Congress on Monday [5-8-17] she had warned a top White House official that then-national security adviser Mike Flynn had misled the vice president and others about his conversations with a top Russian diplomat, and that it had put him at risk of blackmail.
‘Logic would tell you that you don’t want the national security adviser to be in a position where the Russians have leverage over him,’ Ms. Yates said.
Although she spoke cautiously, Ms. Yates offered a dramatic airing of details about a controversial early chapter of the Trump administration, its relations with the Russian government and a secretive Justice Department investigation. She painted a striking picture of one of the nation’s top security officials, a former general, making himself vulnerable to blackmail by a major adversary.”
-Del Quentin Wilber and Byron Tau, “Sally Yates Warned That Mike Flynn Misled Officials About Contact With Russian Envoy,” The Wall Street Journal online, May 8, 2017 10:12pm