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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance
President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials and the White Houses top lawyer, four people briefed on the matter said.
Mr. Trumps decision in May so troubled senior administration officials that at least one, the White House chief of staff at the time, John F. Kelly, wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been ordered to give Mr. Kushner the top-secret clearance.
The White House counsel at the time, Donald F. McGahn II, also wrote an internal memo outlining the concerns that had been raised about Mr. Kushner including by the C.I.A. and how Mr. McGahn had recommended that he not be given a top-secret clearance.
Mr. Trumps decision in May so troubled senior administration officials that at least one, the White House chief of staff at the time, John F. Kelly, wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been ordered to give Mr. Kushner the top-secret clearance.
The White House counsel at the time, Donald F. McGahn II, also wrote an internal memo outlining the concerns that had been raised about Mr. Kushner including by the C.I.A. and how Mr. McGahn had recommended that he not be given a top-secret clearance.
[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance.html|
President Trump repeatedly has denied ever having anything to do with obtaining security clearances for members of his family, including Kushner and Ivanka Trump, who is the First Daughter and White House Advisor to the President.
][link:https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/02/trump-ordered-john-kelly-to-grant-jared-kushner-a-top-secret-security-clearance-report/|
Everything Trump does is a lie, and often illegal.... Tis enough already
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Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance (Original Post)
Soph0571
Feb 2019
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)1. republicans hand out "security clearances" like candy to the KGOP cabal
so the kremlin & saudi arabia can stay on top of things.
Sick.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)2. Why doesn't the house subpoena them?
See what republicans excuse is for that.
kentuck
(111,097 posts)3. They should be called before the Intelligence Committee...
...in my opinion.
bluestarone
(16,940 posts)4. The fuckers (RUMPIES)are selling
Our SECURITY to the Saudi's, RUSSIANS, NK. Who in the congress accepted this? Subpoena these fuckers NOW!