The former deputy attorney general Sally Q. Yates on Wednesday adamantly defended the Justice Department’s investigation of Michael T. Flynn.
However, she clashed with Senate Republicans who exposed her for being part of a politically motivated ploy by the Obama administration to frame President Trump’s former national security adviser.
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Yates says that top White House officials became "deeply alarmed" when they falsely claimed that the top national security adviser to the incoming president was conducting secretive talks with the Russian ambassador.
Yates claims that officials claimed that Mr. Flynn’s purpose was to undercut new American sanctions against Moscow and that he was withholding those discussions from the incoming vice president.
Sen. Lindsey Graham weighed in on the testimony as well:
