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PTWB

(4,131 posts)
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 06:42 PM Feb 2019

Trump ordered security officials to give Kushner his clearance

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance.html

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 House’s top lawyer, four people briefed on the matter said.

Mr. Trump’s 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.



I’m pretty sure we all suspected this was the case.
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Trump ordered security officials to give Kushner his clearance (Original Post) PTWB Feb 2019 OP
Isn't this old news? Somehow I already knew this. triron Feb 2019 #1
I knew it too ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #2
That's where I thought I heard it as well. triron Feb 2019 #3
She just tweeted about it. PTWB Feb 2019 #4
+1 dalton99a Feb 2019 #5
I remember now ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #6
The nepotism in this administration is positively despicable. PTWB Feb 2019 #10
It is old news gratuitous Feb 2019 #13
Feel Certain CDerekGo Feb 2019 #7
This is HUGE! K&R manor321 Feb 2019 #8
This Kakistocracy is out of CONTROL malaise Feb 2019 #9
He has zero regard for any law. spanone Feb 2019 #11
Even the things he does that ARE lawful, he manages to do them in the most unethical ways. PTWB Feb 2019 #12

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
6. I remember now
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 06:53 PM
Feb 2019

She brought up the issue of granting security clearances to a number of people, including Kushner, but she never said it was Rump who pushed it through. If I'm recalling correctly, her point was that the WH pushed, so that could have been anyone. But it's pretty obvious who it was. That's why we already knew.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
13. It is old news
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 07:22 PM
Feb 2019

But for some reason, Congress didn't see fit to investigate this potential breach of national security at the time it was revealed. That might change soon.

CDerekGo

(507 posts)
7. Feel Certain
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 06:55 PM
Feb 2019

that Jared isn't the only one to have been ordered to have Top Security Clearance ordered by orange shitler

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