White House and Congress Set to Spar Over Kushner Security Clearance

[MelissaB]

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White House and Congress Set to Spar Over Kushner Security Clearance

The White House would like to be in the room when Congressional investigators grill Carl Kline, the official who green-lit Jared Kushner’s security clearance.

The White House would like to be in the room when Congressional investigators grill Carl Kline, the official who green-lit Jared Kushner’s security clearance, according to a letter from that official’s lawyer.

The letter, which The Daily Beast obtained, describes a conflict between Capital Hill and 1600 Pennsylvania. At issue is an investigation of the security clearance process run by Chairman Elijah Cummings’ Committee on Oversight and Reform. Cummings has subpoenaed Carl Kline, the former head of the White House Presidential Personnel Office who overturned a subordinate’s vetoes of security clearances for multiple White House officials.

Now, Kline is looking to bring an attorney from the White House Counsel’s Office into his interview with Cummings’ staff because of potential executive privilege issues. And, per the letter, the White House wants to be there as well. But lawyers for the committee, per the letter, do not want a White House presence in the room when they question Kline. So there’s an impasse.

“There is a continuing constitutional dispute between the Committee and the White House over both the scope of appropriate questions, and now a seeming conflict over whether the Committee may exclude White House counsel from the deposition,” wrote Bob Driscoll of McGlinchey and Stafford, who represents Carl Kline, the official in question. “I am doing my best to manage everyone’s concerns, but again– we have no ability nor authority to resolve this dispute, leaving us caught in the crossfire.”

Spokespersons for the committee did not respond to a request for comment on the letter. A White House spokesperson declined to comment.

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[Chin music]

1. They should take a picnic and go sit in the front part of the CIA Foyerway(?)

and discuss if he's qualified. Right in there where all those men and womens names are chiseled in stone. Go THERE and talk about what's rightfully involved in having any security clearance, at all. Especially one where folks can die if someone gives away raw data. Probably a monument at each of our other agencies too, including The Pentagon.
17 Agencies worth of people who reached a very high bar of clearance, and honor. A pay-off, in a way, for living a sterling life and having the most incorruptible character. honorable people, who would jump in front of a bullet for this country.
Let's watch him answer and compare and contrast?

[2naSalit]

2. That kkklan has no sense of

respect for anyone or anything, it wouldn't matter if you were in the most sacred place on the planet, it wouldn't matter to those mentally deranged assholes.