Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance

[yortsed snacilbuper]

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.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-ordered-officials-to-give-jared-kushner-a-security-clearance/ar-BBUdSm7?ocid=spartandhp

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. If a Democratic president did this the country would shut down until that prez was removed

[mcar]

6. If a Democratic president did any one of the things

That Dotard has done, they'd have been impeached in the first month.

[Turbineguy]

2. Putin is next.

[fascisthunter]

3. Trump is a Traitor

Is hanging still the penalty for treason? Just wondering.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Hmmm...when is McGhan gonna testify, I wonder?

He talked to Mueller last year.

[Gothmog]

5. Trump chief of staff kept paper trail after president ordered him to grant Kushner top-secret cleara

Link to tweet

[moondust]

7. Security risk.

It should not be one of the powers of the Presidency to overrule the system that grants security clearances. Somebody like Kushner is liable to use high-level security information not for national security purposes but for personal profit. Kushner and other members of the grifter gang that have clearances should continue to be monitored for national security compromises--maybe for as long as they live.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

8. He's probably selling secrets to russia, Israel, and Saudi arabia already!

Jerald is a scumbag.