Here's our US correspondent Lorna Shaddick.
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Michael Flynn was one of Donald Trump's most loyal campaign surrogates… and, once named National Security Adviser, one of his toughest foreign policy attack dogs. Here he is back in February:
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"Instead of being thankful to the United States in these agreements, Iran is now feeling emboldened. As of today, we are officially putting Iran on notice."
But later that month, when it became clear Mr Flynn had failed to reveal conversations with the Russian ambassador to Washington, and misled the Vice President about them, Donald Trump said he had to go:
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"Mike Flynn is a fine person and I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it. He didn't tell the Vice President of the United States the facts, and then he didn't remember and that just wasn't acceptable to me."
Since then, it's become clear that there were other things Mr Flynn hadn't remembered. Three weeks after he resigned, he registered retroactively as a foreign agent, and disclosed he'd earned over half a million dollars from a Dutch firm with ties to the Turkish government. Now documents released by the House Oversight Committee appear to show he took over 33 thousand dollars from RT, the Kremlin-backed television network, for a speech he gave in Moscow in 2015 - but doesn't seem to have sought permission or got approval for that. Members of Congress are now calling on the Army to determine whether he broke the law. Here's Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal:
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"The DIA letter, the DOD letter, the inspector general, all testify to a flagrant violation of criminal statute that must be investigated and prosecuted."
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, a Republican, has asked the Army to establish a way for Mr. Flynn to repay what he was given by the Russian and Turkish governments.
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"As a former military officer you simply cannot take money from Russia, Turkey or anybody else."
The White House is also facing questions about the forms Mr. Flynn would have needed to fill in to get security clearance there - it won't release those documents, but Presidential spokesman Sean Spicer said the previous administration would have handled it:
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There's an issue that the Dept of Defence Inspector General's looking into, we welcome that, but all of that clearance was made during the Obama administration.
Maryland Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings, of the house oversight committee, blasted the White House for its handling of the affair:
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There is a paper trail, that the White House does not want our committee to follow. But let it be known that we will follow it. We will follow it with everything we've got. I honestly do not understand why the White House is covering up for Michael Flynn, I don't get it, after the President fired him for lying.
Congressman Cummings went on to release documents showing that Mr Flynn was warned about seeking payments from foreign governments:
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And we have no evidence, zilch, that he obtained permission from the Secretary of the Army, and the Secretary of State, to accept any foreign government payments, as required by law.
But Michael Flynn's lawyer rejects that, saying his client was forthcoming about his trip to Russia and the payments he received, and that the Defence Intelligence Agency was fully aware of the trip. With investigations into Mr. Flynn now being carried out by the FBI, the Pentagon and two Congressional committees, there'll be no shortage of people looking into whether those claims hold water. Lorna Shaddick, New York.