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Acting AG Yates warns White House that Flynn could be compromised

On 26 January 2017 acting Attorney General Sally Yates phoned White House counsel Don McGahn and then met him to warn that National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had misled officials about his contacts with Russia's ambassador and could be open to Russian blackmail.

Sally Yates (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 26 January 2017 acting Attorney General Sally Yates phoned White House counsel Don McGahn and then met him to warn that National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had misled officials about his contacts with Russia's ambassador and could be open to Russian blackmail. The FBI had interviewed Flynn two days earlier.

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  • Sally Yates

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    Acting AG Yates warns White House that Flynn could be compromised. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.theguardian.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: yates+flynn+mcgahn · verified
  2. 2.foxnews.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: yates+flynn+mcgahn · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Acting AG Yates warns White House that Flynn could be compromised. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/yates-warns-white-house-about-flynn-2017-01-26

https://factrail.ai/facts/yates-warns-white-house-about-flynn-2017-01-26

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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