'No such thing happened': Former acting AG Sally Yates says Obama, Biden did not urge Flynn inquiry
Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates told a Senate panel Wednesday that in the days before Donald Trump's inauguration, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden made no attempt to target incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn for prosecution to undermine the new administration.
Yates, describing a Jan. 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting to discuss Russian interference in the 2016 election, said she was surprised to learn from Obama that the FBI had intercepted Flynn's conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in which the incoming national security adviser sought to "neuter" recently imposed sanctions on the Kremlin for its election intervention.
"My memory is clear," Yates told the Senate Judiciary Committee, adding that Obama urged caution when sharing information with Flynn during the transition to the Trump administration.
"No such thing happened," Yates said, when later pressed whether administration officials sought to pursue a Flynn inquiry. "That meeting was not about an investigation at all. That would have set off alarms for me."
Birx call disclosed to reporter
The White House Coronavirus Task Force sees troubling coronavirus numbers in 10 local areas across the country, even as its data shows improvement in Sunbelt states, according to a private call between task force leader Dr. Deborah Birx and state and local officials Wednesday.
Over 80,000 mail-in ballots disqualified in NYC primary mess
One out of four mail-in ballots were disqualified for arriving late, lacking a postmark or failing to include a voter’s signature, or other defects. The Post reported Tuesday that roughly 30,000 mail-in ballots were invalidated in Brooklyn alone.
A federal judge ruled Monday that thousands of voters were disenfranchised because of the tardy mailing and processing of the ballots.
City lawyers admitted in Manhattan federal court last week that they were still mailing absentee ballots the day before the June primary, leaving little chance they could reach voters in time.
Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles
Illinois journalism professor Nikki Usher has focused her research on elite U.S. newsrooms and how new technology impacts how journalists work. Her recent study with colleague Yee Man Margaret Ng looked at how Washington, D.C., journalists cluster on Twitter.
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