GOP seeks to go on offense using Flynn against Biden

Two Senate committees are now investigating former Vice President Joe Biden’s role in the “unmasking” of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, as Republican senators seek to go on offense with an issue they think will damage the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee while helping them retain their majority. 

Republicans are seizing on a declassified National Security Agency document made public Wednesday showing that 39 former Obama administration officials in late 2016 and early 2017, including Biden, requested to know the identity of an American who had come up in intelligence briefings based on his conversations with then Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

Flynn, a senior member of President-elect Trump’s national security team, was revealed to be that individual. Continue reading.