Article snippet: Sally Yates, the former acting United States attorney general who drew the ire of President executive order, testified that she informed the White House Counsel that the Department of Justice believed that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn could be subject to blackmail by the Russian government. Yates said that she had two in-person meetings the White House Counsel to discuss concerns about Flynn. "We believed Gen. Flynn was compromised in regards to the Russians," she said. Yates said that not only was Flynn's conduct "problematic in it of itself," but that also both Vice President Mike Pence and the American people had been misled. "To state the obvious, you don't want your national security adviser compromised with the Russians," she said. Not only did the FBI and Department of Justice know about the conduct, but "the Russians also knew about what Gen. Flynn had done" and that Flynn had misled Pence, Yates said. That created a "compromise situation," in which the national security adviser "essentially could be blackmailed by the Russians." Yates testified today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, alongside former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, as part of its investigation into Russian interference in last year's presidential election. Yates, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, filled the top position at the Jeff Sessions as attorney general. During that time, her office was probing the relati... Link to the full article to read more