Report: Sally Yates will deliver a forceful public rebuke of the Trump administration on Michael Flynn

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May 3, 2017 5:20 AM

Sally Yates will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee that she warned the White House in January that Michael Flynn could be susceptible to Russian blackmail.

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee that she warned the White House in January that former national security adviser Michael Flynn could be susceptible to Russian blackmail, according to CNN.

Such testimony would amount to a forceful public rebuke of President Donald Trump's claim that he was not aware that Flynn had discussed the issue of US sanctions on Russia with Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the US, during the transition.

Yates, then the acting attorney general, reportedly traveled to the White House in late January to warn administration officials that Flynn had been misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Kislyak, which she said made him vulnerable to being blackmailed by Russia.

Then the vice president-elect, Pence had insisted in an earlier interview with CBS that Flynn and Kislyak "

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