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Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled

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Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled

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1/24/19
WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner's application for a top-secret clearance was rejected by two career White House security specialists after an FBI background check raised concerns about potential foreign influence on him — but their supervisor overruled the recommendation and approved the clearance, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. The official, Carl Kline, is a former Pentagon employee who was installed as director of the personnel security office in the Executive Office of the President in May 2017. Kushner's was one of at least 30 cases in which Kline overruled career security experts and approved a top-secret clearance for incoming Trump officials despite unfavorable information, the two sources said. They said the number of rejections that were overruled was unprecedented — it had happened only once in the three years preceding Kline's arrival. Kushner's FBI background check identified questions about his family's business, his foreign contacts, his foreign travel and meetings he had during the campaign, the sources said, declining to be more specific. The White House office only determines eligibility for secret and top-secret clearances. As a very senior official, Kushner was seeking an even higher designation that would grant him access to what is known as "sensitive compartmented information," or SCI. That material makes up the government's most sensitive secrets, including transcripts of intercepted foreign communications, CIA source reporting and other intelligence.

The CIA is the agency that decides whether to grant SCI clearance to senior White House officials after conducting a further background check. After Kline overruled the White House security specialists and recommended Kushner for a top-secret clearance, Kushner's file then went to the CIA for a ruling on SCI. After reviewing the file, CIA officers who make clearance decisions balked, two of the people familiar with the matter said. One called over to the White House security division, wondering how Kushner got even a top-secret clearance, the sources said. Top-secret information is defined as material that would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security if disclosed to adversaries. The sources say the CIA has not granted Kushner clearance to review SCI material. That would mean Kushner lacks access to key intelligence unless President Donald Trump decides to override the rules, which is the president's' prerogative. "What you are reporting is what all of us feared," said Brad Moss, a lawyer who represents persons seeking security clearances. "The normal line adjudicators looked at the FBI report … saw the foreign influence concerns, but were overruled by the quasi-political supervisor." The sources said they did not know whether Kline was in communication with senior political White House officials. They say he overruled career bureaucrats at least 30 times, granting top-secret clearances to officials in the Executive Office of the President or the White House after adjudicators working for him recommended against doing so.

Sounds like there is a whole nest (30) of Trump people in the White House with security clearance denials that were overruled by some obscure WH official.

related: Kushner's top-secret security clearance was rejected twice
 
Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled

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Sounds like there is a whole nest (30) of Trump people in the White House with security clearance denials that were overruled by some obscure WH official.

related: Kushner's top-secret security clearance was rejected twice

What's the problem? Sounds like you're just butthurt Hilary lost huh?

(Sorry, the Trumplings defenses are so pathetic of late I feel sorry for 'em.)

Sounds to me like there's some splainin' to do!:roll:
 
I'm glad this is being investigated.
 
What's the problem? Sounds like you're just butthurt Hilary lost huh?

(Sorry, the Trumplings defenses are so pathetic of late I feel sorry for 'em.)

Sounds to me like there's some splainin' to do!:roll:

Jr's loyalty/allegiance to either USA or Israel is questioned. I think he's simply loyal to Big Money.
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No one should have access to sensitive US government information if the CIA considers them a risk. That's BS.

And Ivanka insists she is not a WH staffer or an advisor to the president. She is entitled because of her position as "First Daughter".

wtf?
 
It is a slap in the face of anyone (myself included) who has had to fill out a SF86 background check and go through the long process and the interviews, and having friends and neighbors interviewed, and getting fingerprinted and having the FBI go through your finances, travel history, contacts, etc. I passed with flying colors every time.....this bozo should not be working for the government, no equivocation.

But the cult doesn't care, corruption is so rife in the White House right now, they think that is normal.
 
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