Tag: National Security Advisor

Mueller rebukes Flynn, who ‘chose’ to make false statements to FBI

Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday rebuked former national security adviser Michael Flynn for suggesting that FBI agents had duped him into lying about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.

“Nothing about the way the interview was arranged or conducted caused the defendant to make false statements to the FBI on January 24,” Mueller wrote in a filing Friday afternoon, asking a federal judge to reject Flynn’s attempt to “minimize the seriousness of those false statements to the FBI.”

“The defendant chose to make false statements about his communications with the Russian ambassador weeks before the FBI interview, when he lied about that topic to the media, the incoming Vice President, and other members of the Presidential Transition Team,” Mueller wrote.

View the complete December 14 article by Morgan Chalfant on The Hill website here.

Trump Chooses Bolton for 3rd Security Adviser as Shake-Up Continues

The following article by Mark Landler and Maggie Haberman was posted on the New York Times website March 22, 2018:

Lt. Gen. McMaster is the latest in a series of high-profile exits from President Trump’s administration. He will be replaced as national security adviser by John R. Bolton, a former ambassador to the United Nations. By ROBIN LINDSAY and DREW JORDAN on Publish Date March 22, 2018. Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times. Watch in Times Video »

WASHINGTON — President Trump named John R. Bolton, a hard-line former American ambassador to the United Nations, as his third national security adviser on Thursday, continuing a shake-up that creates one of the most hawkish national security teams of any White House in recent history. Continue reading “Trump Chooses Bolton for 3rd Security Adviser as Shake-Up Continues”

Trump adviser Flynn paid by multiple Russia-related entities, new records show

The following article by Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger was posted on the Washington Post website March 16, 2017:

Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign as national security adviser amid controversy over his contacts with Russia’s ambassador, collected nearly $68,000 in fees and expenses from Russia-related entities in 2015, a higher amount than was previously known, according to newly released documents.

The records show that the bulk of the money, more than $45,000, came from the Russian government-backed television network RT, in connection to a December 2015 trip Flynn took to Moscow. Flynn has acknowledged that RT sponsored his trip, during which he attended a gala celebrating the network’s 10th anniversary and was seated near Russian President Vladi­mir Putin. His speakers bureau took a cut of the fee. Continue reading “Trump adviser Flynn paid by multiple Russia-related entities, new records show”