U.S. Senate intel panel wants Trump ex-aides to testify in Russia probe - CNN

 

Under a painting of Hillary Clinton, U.S. President Donald Trump makes a surprise appearance in front people touring the White House in Washington, U.S. March 7, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate intelligence committee wants some former aides of President Donald Trump to testify in its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, CNN reported on Thursday, citing senators who sit on the panel.

 

CNN said lawmakers wanted to hear directly from former Trump aides who have been named in news reports, including Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager; retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser; and Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Trump's campaign.

 

(Reporting by Washington newsroom)

 

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Can't wait to see what they get from Manafort.

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/paul-manafort-blackmail-russia-trump-235275

 

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Manafort faced blackmail attempt, hacks suggest

Stolen texts appear to show threats to expose relations among Russia-friendly forces, Trump and his former campaign chairman.

Attached to the text is a note to Paul Manafort referring to “bulletproof” evidence related to Manafort’s financial arrangement with Ukraine’s former president, the pro-Russian strongman Viktor Yanukovych, as well as an alleged 2012 meeting between Trump and a close Yanukovych associate named Serhiy Tulub.

 

 

And so it begins....