By Shane Harris, Carol E. Lee and Julian E. Barnes:
Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has told the Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional officials investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia that he is willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.
As an adviser to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, and later one of Mr. Trump’s top aides in the White House, Mr. Flynn was privy to some of the most sensitive foreign-policy deliberations of the new administration and was directly involved in discussions about the possible lifting of sanctions on Russia imposed by the Obama administration.
The Full Story (March 31, 2017)*
*Editor's Note: The article is behind a pay wall. However, Alex Whiting of Just Security has an article explaining why this request for immunity may just amount to nothing more than a hill of beans: Flynn’s Public Offer to Testify for Immunity Suggests He May Have Nothing to Say
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