Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance
Source: NYT
WASHINGTON 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.
The disclosure of the memos contradicts statements made by the president, who told The New York Times in January in an Oval Office interview that he had no role in his son-in-law receiving his clearance.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance.html
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Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Yosemito
(648 posts)If you ask me.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Giving someone who can be compromised a security clearance on any level, let alone the level Kushner got, is recklessly dangerous.
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)knew he had done it. One huge web of lies.
TeamPooka
(24,228 posts)Sanders won't come out of her rathole for a press briefing for another 6 weeks.
SallyHemmings
(1,822 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Weird
well, tomorrows Friday.......
defacto7
(13,485 posts)I dreamt the other night that I cried on Obama's shoulder, then he offered me a beer. Now that's strange.
Don't tell anybody.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)I LIKE BEER
and Barrack Obama, needless to say
Ohiogal
(32,004 posts)Hundreds of infractions that would have made Rethug heads explode if they were done by a Democrat!
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)To whom power justifies anything.
slumcamper
(1,606 posts)While I respect a stable and measured approach to governance, these times demand something more confrontational. If our shell of representative democracy is to survive, forceful confrontation is the only effective response to extralegal authoritarianism.
Certainly, Congress may evoke its own emergency powers and exercise authority to preserve and protect our Constitution and rule of law.
Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)Not surprised but this bullshit needs to be exposed...
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)seeing as how we all knew it already.
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)That this just keeps being the status quo
These peeps should be in prison, not at the executive branch of our government
demmiblue
(36,860 posts)Senior American officials were worried. Since the early months of the Trump administration, Jared Kushner, the presidents son-in-law and Middle East adviser, had been having private, informal conversations with Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the favorite son of Saudi Arabias king.
Given Mr. Kushners political inexperience, the private exchanges could make him susceptible to Saudi manipulation, said three former senior American officials. In an effort to tighten practices at the White House, a new chief of staff tried to reimpose longstanding procedures stipulating that National Security Council staff members should participate in all calls with foreign leaders.
But even with the restrictions in place, Mr. Kushner, 37, and Prince Mohammed, 33, kept chatting, according to three former White House officials and two others briefed by the Saudi royal court. In fact, they said, the two men were on a first-name basis, calling each other Jared and Mohammed in text messages and phone calls.
The exchanges continued even after the Oct. 2 killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who was ambushed and dismembered by Saudi agents, according to two former senior American officials and the two people briefed by the Saudis.
As the killing set off a firestorm around the world and American intelligence agencies concluded that it was ordered by Prince Mohammed, Mr. Kushner became the princes most important defender inside the White House, people familiar with its internal deliberations say.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/world/middleeast/saudi-mbs-jared-kushner.html
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He is a vile, evil creature.
BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)Bibi is going down for his crimes (finally) so who will Kushner meet with to negotiate peace in the middle east?
demmiblue
(36,860 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)Jared or MBS? Or both?
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)are people going to forget the disaster of the NK summit failure or the disaster of the Cohen testimony?
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)People won't forget; but where to take action 1st against a mountain of bullshit?
bluestarone
(16,968 posts)Why were they QUIET? This is SOO WRONG!!
Dixc
(52 posts)Now, refresh my memory...how do you kill vampires?
stopwastingmymoney
(2,042 posts)Welcome
volstork
(5,401 posts)jacked up.
riversedge
(70,240 posts).....The disclosure of the memos contradicts statements made by the president, who told The New York Times in January in an Oval Office interview that he had no role in his son-in-law receiving his clearance........
mobeau69
(11,145 posts)WaPo must have a whole division on their own floor just tracking them!
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)sandensea
(21,636 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)tonekat
(1,815 posts)...if they're going to be handed out like Costco Memberships!!?? This criminal family has access to a lot of things they should not.
People who had to be screened in detail for their Security Clearances must be peed at seeing him just get it with no polygraphs, etc.
This is more of trump running our government like "Dirty Don's Hotel".
"Here 'y go kid, I pulled some strings. Does your wife want one?"
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)a high level security clearance. Specially from drumpf.
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)and screw the country giving a compromised criminal the keys to the safe.
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)I think we're going to have to maroon him and his ilk.
Evolve Dammit
(16,736 posts)were questioned or rejected, including Kushners but ultimately overridden by a Trump appointee. Please affirm or refute my understanding of what happened. I also thought the whistleblower was a handicapped woman who was berated by said appointee and denied customary review protocols for the security clearances.
yerop
(89 posts)so much for the honest tough guy myth about Kelly
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,472 posts)David Fahrenthold Retweeted
Oh nothing, just Jared Kushner's family seeking $800 million in bank financing.
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Hat tip, Joe.My.God (https://www.joemygod.com/2019/02/kushner-cos-buys-apartments-group-for-1-1-billion/) for pointing this tweet out:
1. Jared Kushner's family business is paying $1.1 billion for a portfolio of apartments
2. It plans to borrow money for about 70% of that payment
This sounds like a familiar story...
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Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)demmiblue
(36,860 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)it's a simple as that. Until Trump lies directly to the faces of the Repubes and they are left drooling in their own brain melt, they will never hold him accountable.
ROB-ROX
(767 posts)I had heard the WH is a "Q" clearance area. I had a "Q" clearance for 34 years. The government spends $10,000 during the process (every 5 years) to ensure a clearance can be granted. Part of the process is to visit with people who live on your block. A "top secret" clearance ain't "crap" when the "Q" is the next step higher clearance. I think any administrative assistance could "escort" a person with a lower clearance. I have escorted people who only had "top secret." Sharing "Q" information would be against the law or entering a "Q" area un-escorted would be illegal. The GOP thinks not everyone requires the correct clearance because many of their clowns would not be granted a clearance.........