Senate Intel Committee Subpoenas Michael Flynn in Russia Probe

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: NBC

President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, was subpoenaed by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.

The committee, led by Sens. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, and Mark Warner, D-Virginia, said it also requested documents that members believe to be relevant to its investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

The committee initially requested the documents from Flynn in a letter on April 28, but he declined to comply. The Intelligence Committee has now followed up with an official subpoena.

This is the first time the Intelligence Committee has used its subpoena power since the joint inquiry into the terrorist attacks of Sept. 1, 2001, and it's the first time it has subpoenaed documents since the 1970s, a Senate historian told NBC News.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/senate-intel-committee-subpoenas-michael-flynn-russia-probe-n757661

[murielm99]

1. What will happen if he ignores the subpoena?

Will they jail him?

Is he holding out for immunity?

[Amaryllis]

2. What happens if you refuse to testify:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2005/03/do_you_have_to_testify_before_congress.html

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. In other words - not one damn thing, if you are Michael Flynn!

[marybourg]

5. Very interesting. Thank you nt

[customerserviceguy]

9. An interesting analysis, thanks for posting it

But, there is zero precedent on the power of the executive to use pardon power on a Congressional penalty, and it would have to be decided by a Supreme Court that just tilted against us.

Under the axiom that hard cases make bad precedents, I can see Congress (even Democratic members) refusing to put the screws to Flynn under the present circumstances. And as long as the GOP is more frightened of Trump than repulsed by him, they will block any efforts to exact penalties against Flynn.

[keithbvadu2]

3. He has already lied about his ties to Russia.

It's not like he wouldn't lie again.

[L. Coyote]

11. Flynn spoke to the FBI without a lawyer, and made untrue statements per Sally Yates.

Link to tweet

[dhill926]

6. I would be surprised if many of those documents have survived...

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Very troubling

Only now does Senator Burr sound like he might actually do something
knowing it will be too late by the time the Senate Intelligence Committee
gains enough knowledge to do anything.

We stand at a precipice of free speech suppression. Knowledge is disappearing,
being destroyed, removed from public view, the power grab is underway. What
is it people don't understand about that?

[Hestia]

12. Remember, though, officials in the PBO administration purposefully indexed documents and

forwarded them to the proper bureau, in order that they couldn't be suppressed or lost. The indexing was to show that the reports existed somewhere and there was a copy of it. Rachel Maddow had a show about this back in January. (I know, I know, so much as happened in this short time, that it can be hard to remember what was reported when.)

[snooper2]

8. This will be massive

bump for this thread

[briv1016]

10. So what's the over/under on how may times Flynn pleads the 5th?

My money's on every Dem senators' questions.