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“Can we ask him to shut down the investigation? Are you able to assist in this matter?” one official said of the line of questioning from the White House.
In addition to the requests to Coats and Rogers, senior White House officials sounded out top intelligence officials about the possibility of intervening directly with Comey to encourage the FBI to drop its investigation of Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, according to people familiar with the matter.
“The problem wasn’t so much asking them to issue statements, it was asking them to issue false statements about an ongoing investigation,” a former senior intelligence official said of the request to Coats.
Two new Trump Administration efforts to obstruct justice documented in the press today:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ac8b446820a_story.html?utm_term=.d1c6da2a936c
In addition to the requests to Coats and Rogers, senior White House officials sounded out top intelligence officials about the possibility of intervening directly with Comey to encourage the FBI to drop its investigation of Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, according to people familiar with the matter.
“The problem wasn’t so much asking them to issue statements, it was asking them to issue false statements about an ongoing investigation,” a former senior intelligence official said of the request to Coats.
Two new Trump Administration efforts to obstruct justice documented in the press today:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ac8b446820a_story.html?utm_term=.d1c6da2a936c
