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BBC: Ex-national security adviser ‘to defy Senate Russia inquiry’

By BBC.

Published May 22, 2017 at 6:57 pm

Then-US National Security Adviser Mike Flynn speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 1, 2017.

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The fired US national security adviser will refuse to hand over documents to a Senate panel investigating alleged Russian meddling in the US election.

Michael Flynn reportedly plans to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination on May 22.