Top Dems say Flynn left Mideast trip off security clearance
WASHINGTON - Former business associates of Michael Flynn have told lawmakers that he traveled to the Middle East in 2015 as part of a private proposal to build nuclear power plants across the region, a trip that the former Trump administration national security adviser never disclosed during his security clearance process.
In a letter released Wednesday, two top House Democrats reveal that companies involved in the proposal provided details of Flynn's trip in June 2015 that suggest he also failed to report contacts with Israeli and Egyptian government officials. The lawmakers—Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland and Rep. Eliot Engel of New York—are now asking the companies and Flynn to provide the names and nationalities of any officials he met with during the trip abroad.
