attack on our democracy, it's of the same type, which is why I said it's so obvious.
Mr. Cummings. The President's national security advisor has access to our country's most closely held secrets. The Russians knew that, and they had talked to Flynn and what he talked about, and they knew that Flynn and others in the White House were lying about those communications.
Does that create the concern that the national security advisor had been compromised by a foreign adversary?
Mr. Comey. I think I have to give you the same answer about the particular, that even though the man has pled guilty, it's still something I think is within the purview of the special counsel, so I ought not to be opining on it.
Mr. Cummings. All right. What is the risk to our country of having the person with access to our most closely held secrets be compromised or potentially compromised by a foreign adversary? And I'm not saying that you're concluding that it happened. I am just asking, what's the risk, if that were the case?
Mr. Comey. Thank you for that.
Mr. Cummings. You follow me?
Mr. Comey. Yeah, I follow you, and I'd like to take it to one more level of abstraction.
Mr. Cummings. Sure.
Mr. Comey. Not talk about any particular person.
