One action, he said, may be seeking repayment of money from Flynn - possibly in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Flynn has denied any wrongdoing, amid reports he is under investigation by both the Defense Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings also commented on the briefing, saying that the documents he reviewed about Flynn were "extremely troubling".
The White House has declined to provide congressional lawmakers with documents about former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's payments from foreign governments, including Russian Federation.
Meanwhile, the committee requested more documents from the White House on Flynn's vetting, and on his termination.
"That is simply unacceptable", Cummings said.
Cummings also accused the White House of stonewalling the work of the committee by failing to provide information on Flynn's contacts with foreign nationals.
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Asked if Flynn broke the law, Spicer said: "I don't know".
Chaffetz suggested Flynn, who served as the director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 until 2014, did not comply with U.S. law about traveling to Russian Federation to engage in that "activity". Flynn had led the spy agency until 2014, when he was forced to retire by the Obama administration.
"He answered any questions that were posed by DIA concerning the trip during those briefings", attorney Robert Kelner said, according to a statement ABC News posted on Twitter.
A spokesman for the Defense Intelligence Agency, Jim Kudla, has said Flynn briefed the agency in advance about his trip to Moscow "in accordance with standard security clearance procedures".
As a retired member of the military, he is required by law to seek permission from the Secretaries of State and Defence before receiving payments from foreign governments. "It does not appear to us that that was ever sought, nor did he ever get that permission", Mr. Chaffetz said. HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE - Representative Jason Chaffetz, the committee's Republican chairman, has resisted calls to investigate the Trump administration.
The Associated Press reported Flynn's lawyer filed paperwork with the Justice Department in February disclosing that he had done lobbying work that "could be construed to have principally benefited the Republic of Turkey" between August and November 2016. Last month, ex-CIA Director James Moosley revealed that he attended a meeting with Flynn and Turkish foreign ministers to discuss removing Fehtullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric living in Pennsylvania, that President Recep Tayyip Erodogan has blamed for for many attempted coups. Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates is to testify on her warnings to the White House about Flynn's Russian connections. SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, chairman of the panel's subcommittee on crime and terrorism, and Sheldon Whitehouse, the subcommittee's ranking Democrat, are looking into Russian attempts to influence the election.




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