The Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenaed Michael Flynn. He didn’t come. They asked for this documents. He refuses to produce. The House House Intelligence Committee apparently wants in on some of that fine Fifth Amendment action, as they have extended the same demand to the former national security adviser.
The House Intelligence Committee will issue subpoenas to Michael Flynn, Rep. Adam Schiff said.
Don’t expect Flynn to be any more eager to show in the House than he was to see the Senate. But the Senate is not throwing up their hands at Flynn’s refusal to appear. They’re throwing more subpoenas.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has announced two new subpoenas against former national security adviser Michael Flynn to compel him to turn over documents related to his contact with the Russians, adding that Flynn risks being held in contempt of Congress if he does not comply with the requests.
What differentiates these new subpoenas from the whopping 10 such documents Flynn already answered with a nyet? The new batch is aimed at Flynn’s business.
The committee leaders are directing the two new subpoenas at Flynn’s Virginia-based businesses because businesses don’t have a right to plead the Fifth, Warner said.
Subpoenas are a certainty. Contempt of Congress is a possibility. Immunity from prosecution—off the table.
Flynn’s consulting firm handled both the payments he received from Turkey for his lobbying as an unregistered foreign agent and his payments from RT for that famous dinner with Vlad. Likely the subpoenas there are aimed at getting a peek into Flynn’s books.
If Flynn and his attorney’s fail to cough up results this time, a contempt of Congress charge is definitely a possibility.
"If in fact there is not a response, we will seek additional counsel advice on how to proceed forward. At the end of that option is a contempt charge and I've said that everything is on the table," Burr said. "That is not our preference today. We would like to hear from Gen. Flynn. We'd like to see his documents. We'd like him to tell his story because he publicly said 'I've got a story to tell.' We're allowing him that opportunity to do it."
Whatever Flynn’s story is, it’s a tale Donald Trump didn’t want the FBI to follow. Flynn has made two offers to speak on the basis of immunity from prosecution, but he’s not given any real hint of what he might be expected to say. For the moment, no one is interested in that offer.
“As valuable as Gen. Flynn might be to our counterintelligence investigation, we don't believe that it's our place today to offer him immunity from this committee,” he added.