Michael Flynn didn't report 2014 interaction with Russian-British national
Source: WSJ
WASHINGTON---Former national security adviser Mike Flynn interacted with a graduate student with dual Russian and British nationalities at a 2014 U.K. security conference, a contact that came to the notice of U.S. intelligence but that Mr. Flynn, then the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, didn't disclose, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Flynn met Svetlana Lokhova at the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, a gathering of former intelligence officials hosted at Cambridge University, in February 2014. Ms. Lokhova at the time was a graduate student studying the history of Russian intelligence, according to two people who attended the event.
There is no record showing that Mr. Flynn reported his interaction with Ms. Lokhova to security officials in the Defense Department, said a former senior U.S. official with knowledge of the matter. As the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which is part of the Pentagon and the military's largest intelligence organization, Mr. Flynn was expected to notify officials about any contacts with foreigners he didn't know, particularly from an adversary nation such as Russia, the former official said.
The rules on "self-reporting" of such contacts aren't iron-clad, but officials at Mr. Flynn's level of security clearance are generally instructed to view approaches by foreign strangers as a possible attempt to gain sensitive information or even recruit a senior official on behalf of a foreign government.
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This is the woman who is suing Cambridge Analytical and multiple British and US news outlets for their reporting, including the NY Times and MSNBC, who had never reported on her -- and the WSJ, which had.
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2019/05/24/cambridge-academic-news-outlets-flynn-links-1342943
A Russian-born British scholar is suing an alleged FBI informant and four news outlets for allegedly defaming her by linking her to Russian efforts to influence President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
Svetlana Lokhova filed the suit Thursday in federal court in Alexandria, Va., seeking more than $25 million in damages from longtime University of Cambridge academic Stefan Halper as well as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and MSNBC.
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The suit complains about an array of news articles and reports, including some published by British newspapers such as the Financial Times, The Times of London and The Guardian, but those papers were not named as defendants. Some outlets, such as The New York Times and MSNBC, were named as defendants despite having never published a report mentioning Lokhova.
The allegations against MSNBC appear not to stem from any published story or video segment, but from tweets by analyst Malcolm Nance and a retweet by host Joy Reid, as well as contacts Lokhova had with an NBC News producer.