Ex-White House Official: Do-Nothing Gorka 'Not Allowed to Sit in the Real Meetings'
by Aidan McLaughlin | 11:46 am, April 27th, 2017
Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, is a regular fixture on cable news, often appearing to tout his counter-terror credentials and insider information on the imminent threat of terrorism.
Yet the self-proclaimed expert on radical Islam doesn’t have the security clearance to sit in on national security meetings, and spends most of his day sitting idly in the White House canteen drinking coffee between appearances on Fox News, according to a report in Buzzfeed.
Gorka, a former Breitbart national security editor, is a member of Steve Bannon’s Strategic Initiatives Group (SIG), focusing on counterterrorism.
The Buzzfeed report details how Gorka “failed his way upwards to the White House, having been denied security clearance to work in the Hungarian parliament, defeated in a local mayoral race in the 2000s, and widely dismissed as an opportunist.”
Now in the White House, it appears Gorka is facing similar rejection he received in Hungary: as recently as March, he has reportedly yet to receive a security clearance.
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