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Monday, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned after reports that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia. Tuesday, The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence agencies had intercepted phone calls between Russian officials and Trump’s 2016 campaign team.

While the officials who spoke to the Times say they have found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to alter the outcome of the election, the revelations and Flynn’s resignation are nonetheless troubling and, under ordinary circumstances, would trigger a congressional investigation.

That certainly is what occurred repeatedly when the Republican Congress investigated Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and conducted eight separate probes into her role while secretary of state in the 2012 Benghazi attack.

Neither of those cases put the nation’s security at risk. Flynn’s contact with the Russians, which could have left him vulnerable to blackmail, as well as Russia’s involvement in the election, including its theft of Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign emails, put the country’s security at risk.