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Flynn to turn over Russia documents to Senate Intelligence Committee

Wednesday, 31 May 2017 1:28 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 31 May 2017 5:29 PM ]

This AFP file photo taken on January 10, 2017 shows then National Security Advisor Designate speak during a conference at the US Institute of Peace in Washington DC.

Former US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has agreed to provide some of the documents requested by a congressional intelligence committee as part of the probe into allegations of his Russia ties.

Flynn's representatives told the Senate Intelligence Committee in an email on Tuesday that they would start handing over some subpoenaed documents.

The retired US Army general had earlier refused to cooperate with a broader subpoena that included his personal documents, citing his constitutional right against self-incrimination.

However, he agreed to provide certain documents after the committee narrowed its request.

Flynn is under investigation in the ongoing probe into allegations of collusion between US President Donald Trump’s associates and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.

Flynn was forced to resign in February from his position as Trump's first national security adviser after it was revealed that he misled Vice President Mike Pence about a conversation he had with the Russian ambassador to the US in late December.

The conversation, which took place before Trump’s inauguration, centered around lifting then-President Barack Obama’s sanctions against Russia. Any discussion of sanctions at that time would have amounted to a breach of US law barring private citizens from engaging in foreign policy.

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Flynn's tenure of just 24 days as national security advisor is the shortest in the history for the position.

He is also under a formal investigation by the Pentagon for his apparently undisclosed paid speaking engagements in Russia.

The White House is preparing to establish a "war room" to combat mounting questions about ties between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign, a scandal that has threatened to consume his young presidency.

This file handout photo taken on May 10, 2017 made available by the Russian Foreign Ministry shows US President Donald J. Trump (C) speaking with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and Russian Ambassador to the US, Sergei Kislyak during a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC.

Reports about alleged contacts between Trump’s aides and Russian officials during last year’s presidential campaign coincided with accusations by US intelligence agencies that Moscow sought to boost Trump's chances of defeating his presidential rival Hillary Clinton through computer hacking and propaganda.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected allegations of Moscow’s meddling in the US election as fiction invented by Democrats in order to explain their loss.

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