Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, are putting a hold on K.T. McFarland's nomination to become U.S. Ambassador to Singapore.
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Cardin and Booker explain they want McFarland to answer questions regarding the contradictions between emails showing she and former national security advisor Michael Flynn discussed the latter's communication with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and McFarland's assertion to Congress that she was uninformed.
“Ms. McFarland may have provided information to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that conflicts with recent media reports regarding her knowledge and involvement in matters pertaining to contacts during the Trump Presidential Transition between former National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn and Russia’s Ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak, among other matters,” the two lawmakers wrote Friday.
McFarland, pressed on the matter by Booker in July, testified that she was “not aware of any of the issues or events” pertaining to Flynn’s contact with Kislyak. But emails obtained by The New York Times this week revealed that McFarland was aware of a crucial email exchange between Flynn and Kislyak.
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