Officials of the administration of former President Barack Obama, including the then Vice-President Joe Biden, demanded to disclose the name of Michael Flynn in documents intelligence, said in a statement released on Wednesday documents.
Acting Director of national intelligence Richard Grenell revealed the list of officials at the request of the Republicans in the Senate. US law requires that the names of Americans who identified with the surveillance of special services for aliens remained unnamed in the documents of the intelligence, although senior officials may require the disclosure of names.
As it turned out Wednesday, many Obama officials demanded that the intelligence revealed information about what Flynn when he was assistant to the President, Donald trump talked with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. This conversation aroused the concern of the intelligence services, intercepts it, and then leaks to the media. Subsequently, Flynn was forced to resign from the post of adviser to the President on national security and has been on trial on charges that he lied to the FBI about the content of the conversation.
The episode with Flynn became one of the largest in the history with the investigation, "Russian interference in elections," which in Moscow deny, and "trump collusion with Moscow," which deny not only in Moscow but also in Washington.
The first demanded to name Flynn the then permanent representative to the UN, Samantha Power November 30, 2016. Her example was followed by the Director of national intelligence James Clapper, followed by CIA Director John Brennan and FBI James Comey, the Ambassador to Russia John Tefft. Last in this list is Biden, who was asked to disclose the name of Flynn’s 12 January 2017, a week before the change of administration.
The documents contradict the words of Biden, who claimed earlier in an interview with ABC that he knew about the investigation against Flynn, but did not have any relation to it.
Earlier, the Ministry of justice refused criminal prosecution Flynn, who in 2017 for a short time held the post of adviser to trump national security. Flynn twice confessed to making false statements to the FBI, but then tried to refuse a guilty plea. The court on Wednesday hinted that it would consider whether there was inconsistent recognition of Flynn’s reason to charge him with perjury are no longer on the FBI interrogation and in court. Published data correspondence within the FBI, from which it followed that the agents consciously trying to bring Flynn on false testimony.
President trump previously said that the investigation against Flynn’s "cheating" and expressed the hope that the perpetrators will be held accountable.
