The chairman and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee said Tuesday they are not getting cooperation from the White House regarding documentation on former national security adviser Mike Flynn.
Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings said during a joint press conference they have yet to see any supporting documentation to show that former national security adviser Michael Flynn reported payments he accepted from television station Russia Today (RT) in a 2015 trip.
“The White House has refused to provide the committee with a single piece of paper in response to our bipartisan request, and that’s simply unacceptable,” Cummings said.
The two men also said they also could not find any evidence that Flynn sought permission to obtain funds from a foreign source, as he would have been required to do as a retired Army general.
Flynn had basically acknowledged payment from RT in previous interviews.
Flynn was briefly the national security adviser for President Trump shortly after the January inauguration, but stepped down after contents of an intercepted foreign surveillance phone call were leaked to the media, which showed Flynn speaking with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Chaffetz and Cummings made their statements shortly after meeting with the Defense Intelligence Agency.
“If that money was received by General Flynn — and we believe that it was — it will need to be recovered,” Chaffetz said.
