Security clearances at the White House

[struggle4progress]

Norman Eisen
Thursday, March 8, 2018

... It’s unusual for interim clearances to drag on for months and potentially dangerous to have people with an open-ended interim clearance seeing Top Secret/SCI intelligence ...

The risk presented by being this far into an administration and having dozens of interim security clearances still in place is that somebody will accumulate a large amount of exposure to the highest level of classified information and then their clearance will be reduced or removed ...

The United States holds the most important secrets in the world and we need to have a high degree of confidence that those secrets are going to be protected by people who have proper, fully adjudicated clearances ...

It's .. time .. some order was imposed on this chaotic process. I ..hope that our nation’s secrets have not been endangered by the failure to establish .. normal order sooner.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/unpacked/2018/03/08/security-clearances-at-the-white-house/

[PJMcK]

1. The scariest part of this story is that Trump couldn't pass the security screening

His personal and professional history is too sketchy and he refuses to release any financial information.

He'd never pass the background check.

His supporters are too stupid to understand the dangers of this man.

[poboy2]

2. Stop me if you've heard this one...

HAMMER time...

The WH needs to keep being HAMMERED on this.

ALL those w/failed or provisional clearance MUST GO NOW.

THERE IS NO WORKAROUND.


GO

NOW


National Security is at stake.

[gratuitous]

3. Now there's a national security program: "I hope . . ."

Remember how discombobulated Republicans were over the possibility that Secretary Clinton's e-mails might have been hacked? They weren't, but the mere possibility was just the worstest thing that ever happened to our nation's security since rumors of Hoover's fondness for frocks leaked out.

Now? We're reduced to "I hope our nation's secrets have not been endangered." How would we know, anyway?