Officials were so concerned that Flynn did not fully understand the motives of the Russian ambassador that the head of Trump’s national security council transition team asked Obama administration officials for a classified CIA profile of Kislyak, officials said. A spokesman for the National Security Council did not respond to requests for comment from Ford. Shortly thereafter, during the week of Nov. 28, Billingslea and other transition officials met with lower-level Obama administration officials in the Situation Room at the White House. Kislyak would have been keenly interested in whether the Trump administration, just weeks from taking office, intended to enforce these measures. The Russian Embassy called repeatedly to collect on that offer, officials said, until Flynn was fired and the calls stopped.

Source: Washington Post May 05, 2017 22:18 UTC