Raja Calls for General Flynn and White House Counsel Donald McGahn II to Testify Before the House Oversight Committee.

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, a member of the House Oversight Committee, released the following statement in response to a New York Times report that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn informed the Trump
transition team, led by Vice President Mike Pence, that General Flynn
was under federal investigation for secretly working as a paid agent for
Turkey:

“Last night’s disturbing revelation of the White House and Trump
transition team’s knowledge of General Michael Flynn’s secret,
compromising foreign entanglements prior to his arrival at the White
House raises more questions than it answers. As a member of the House
Oversight Committee, I’m calling for public hearings on this matter and
the sworn testimony of Michael Flynn, but our committee’s investigation
must not end there. We must also hear from White House Counsel Donald F.
McGahn II.

Our committee has already viewed classified documents which Chairman
Chaffetz rightfully characterized as providing ‘no data to support the
notion that General Flynn complied with the law’ in reporting huge
payments he received on behalf of foreign governments. Despite requests from the Oversight Committee's Chairman and Ranking Member, the White House has failed to provide any documentation of the vetting of Michael Flynn. Press Secretary Sean Spicer even claimed that the White House could not provide the material in question.

Through its report last night, the New York Times provided
its readers with information the Trump Administration refused to
provide to the Oversight Committee. The White House must deliver the
documents the committee requested or be subpoenaed by the committee to
do.

Per the New York Times,
Flynn informed the transition team’s chief lawyer, Donald F. McGahn II,
on January 4th that he was under federal investigation for secretly
working as a paid agent for Turkey during the campaign. Furthermore, former
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates has already testified that she
informed Mr. McGahn that General Flynn was vulnerable to blackmail by
the Russian government. General Flynn’s disturbing ties to the
Russian and Turkish governments should have thrown his fitness to serve
as National Security Advisor into serious doubt, if they did not
disqualify him outright. The public deserves to know why Mr. McGahn
allowed General Flynn to become National Security Advisor despite these
serious issues.

Vice President Pence has maintained that until they became public, he
had no knowledge of Michael Flynn’s foreign entanglements, despite a November 18, 2016 letter of warning from Ranking Member Cummings.
Last night’s report clearly presents the question of what Mr. McGahn
told Vice President Pence about Flynn’s vetting during the campaign and,
if he omitted General Flynn’s foreign ties, why he did so.

The questions offered by this new report and months of investigation
are about fundamental matters of our security as a nation. Based on the
information available to us today, and to the Trump transition team in
January 2017, General Flynn should have been disqualified from
consideration for the position of National Security Advisor.

To address these questions, we must have all the facts. That is why
I’m calling for the testimony not only of Michael Flynn but also of
White House Counsel McGahn.”