Adam Schiff: It's 'Unlikely' That Flynn Acted as a Free Agent
Amid the turmoil that followed the resignation of Michael Flynn, one of the members of the “Gang of Eight”—the top congressional leaders on intelligence matters—issued a sharp rebuttal to the American president. Donald Trump had tweeted that the “real story” behind the fall of his national-security adviser was the “illegal leaks” coming from the U.S. government, not Flynn’s changing accounts of whether he discussed U.S. sanctions with the Russian ambassador in December. “No, @realDonaldTrump, the real story is your policy of appeasement towards Putin,” Adam Schiff, the leading Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, responded on Twitter. “And we intend to find out why.”
Late Tuesday, I reached Schiff to ask him what exactly he plans to find out—what his unanswered questions are, how he hopes to broaden congressional investigations into the Trump campaign’s contacts with the Russian government,
