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Did Michael Flynn Tell the FBI the Truth?

The former national security adviser learns the hard way: It’s always the cover-up that gets you.
Source: Yuri Gripas / Reuters

Updated at 6:11 p.m. ET

Wash, rinse, repeat: The cover-up is always worse than the crime.

As much change as President Trump has tried to bring to Washington in his eventful first weeks as president, he hasn’t yet altered the enduring truth in that Watergate-era cliché. Michael Flynn discovered it anew on Monday night when he as national security adviser. It wasn’t that Flynn discussed sensitive matters of policy with the Russian ambassador before he took office that

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