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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence
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Presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has had his security clearance downgraded a move that will prevent him from viewing many of the sensitive documents to which he once had unfettered access.
Kushner is not alone. All White House aides working on the highest-level interim clearances at the Top Secret/SCI-level were informed in a memo sent Friday that their clearances would be downgraded to the Secret level, according to three people with knowledge of the situation.
The SCI acronym stands for sensitive compartmentalized information, a category of information that comes from sensitive intelligence sources and must be walled off.
The memo was not signed by chief of staff John Kelly, but it comes as the retired Marine general and other top White House aides are grappling with the fallout of a scandal involving former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, which revealed that dozens of White House aides had yet to receive permanent clearances but nonetheless had access to some of the countrys deepest secrets.
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Something is happening, his spokesperson quit, now this, Guess Kushner is going to get the bullet.
malaise
(269,200 posts)LOCK HIM UP!
Fullduplexxx
(7,872 posts)Kr
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)The New York Shillbillies have to go!
TNLib
(1,819 posts)Now wondering if Kushner is about to go down or if Trump just forgot to take his meds.
BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)questioned by the House Intel. CNN said that she gave the "May Day signal" during testimony to signal the Moron that she was under duress and to help her with distractions.
BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)but no other info was given for the reason of pulling his clearance. Jake Tapper (CNN) couldn't give any more details for the reason behind it. We know he is financially motivated though ($144 million further in debt this year alone). This is significant enough for Kelly to go through with it given the serious info from the FBI.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)dchill
(38,556 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)have any respect for the rule nor laws, the answer is a big fat No.
JK will still view whatever he wants.
FSogol
(45,532 posts)Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)Best response anywhere over the last 24 hours!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I guess it's all up to Steven Miller now.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Now that he is deprived of the info needed to perform the many services assigned by Donnie "the chin" (Leader of the GOP mafia), he can focus on renting out space at "Beast" 5th Ave, his flagship.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)so does he still have Interim secret?
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)maxsolomon
(33,419 posts)DFW
(54,447 posts)Of course, neither should his father-in-law.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)But at that level they get fast tracked so it should take longer than 6 months.
They just have found some serious issues they cant resolve yet.
Since he was still on an interim that means he wasnt denied, indicating that they apparently are still working on it.
But to be on the top of the priority list and be 14+ months in and not done yet means there were a lot of red flags that caused them to dig deeper.
mythology
(9,527 posts)somehow conveniently forgetting many ties to foreign entities, it's hardly surprising. The difference is they are used to just being able to snarl orders at terrified underlings and they can't do that here.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)I absolutely cant inagine the nightmare of one like his with so many foreign contacts and business connections and debts.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Then this afternoon news comes out from 4 countries that they have been able to manipulate Jared and his finances.
The trump crime family is actively committing crimes as we speak and they are setting us up so that we cannot defend ourselves from continued attacks in the future.
He needs to be arrested, not just downgraded.
AdamGG
(1,295 posts)That's basic.
Texin
(2,599 posts)And if he doesn't, Ivanka will.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)...to private Bonespurs? Please. That lard ass Jabba the Hut will share EVERYTHING with ANYBODY he wants to.
We have seen REPEATEDLY, this jackass has ZERO disciple and does damn well whatever he pleases. He is the epitome of a spoiled brat. To hell with Anerica and it's rules of law.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)The WH needs to keep being HAMMERED on this.
ALL those w/failed or provisional clearance MUST GO NOW.
THERE IS NO WORKAROUND.
GO
NOW
National Security is at stake.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)quartz007
(1,216 posts)during my job at a gov't funded laboratory. If I can get that clearance as a foreign born naturalized citizen, I am shocked the president's son-in-law can not get it.
There has to be something bad in Kushner's background. may be smoking ganja? Or contacts with enemies of United States?
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)braddy
(3,585 posts)The President is the final authority on these matters.
"In fact, the security clearance system itself is an expression of presidential authority. Its scope and operation are defined in an executive order (EO 12968), and its terms can be modified by the President at will.
And if the President wished to grant access to classified information to a family member, for example, there would be no legal barrier to doing so." source-- https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2016/11/clearances-presidential/
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The president can authorize clearance for anyone he wants, said Steven Aftergood, director of the project on government secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists. Its part of his commander-in-chief role. He has broad, essentially unlimited, access in this area.
Like anyone else, Mr. Kushner would be subject to a background check by the F.B.I. But the presidents authority is so broad, Mr. Aftergood said, that he could override red flags like fraud, huge personal debt or ties to foreign governments that would disqualify other applicants." source-- https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/us/politics/jared-kushner-trump-family.html
quartz007
(1,216 posts)So....if even Donny is afraid to declare Kushner be given top secret clearance, there must be something not kosher behind the curtain.
So Donny has passed the buck to his chief of staff.
braddy
(3,585 posts)The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)This guy was the one man army in the beginning and now he can't even get a fucking clearance. What a fool.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)It is simply shocking that he and others have been allowed that access to begin with....
Imagine if for the last year, all these people have had the access and have been agents for Russia or another Nation...
PunksMom
(440 posts)this will be enforced? I do t trust anything or anyone associated with that family.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)
.will tell him anything and everything.
And the foreign deal makers know it. The potential quid pro quo remains, as far as I can tell.
mnmoderatedem
(3,729 posts)Gawd only knows what critical intelligence he has been exposed to over the past 1+ years and how vulnerable he is to blackmail.
chwaliszewski
(1,514 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Trump will just tell him all the inside secrets anyway so that Kushner can go on doing his corrupt dealswith plausible deniability now.