White House tells Dems it won't hand over Kushner security clearance docs

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The top White House lawyer on Tuesday said the Trump administration will refuse to provide Congress with information about senior adviser Jared Kushner’s security clearance, slamming House Democrats for “overly intrusive document requests.”

White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said the administration would brief the House Oversight Committee about the White House’s process for granting security clearances, but he balked at the committee’s demand for information specific to Kushner, setting up a potential subpoena fight between the powerful House panel and the White House.

“These actions suggest that the Committee is not interested in proper oversight, but rather seeks information that it knows cannot be provided consistent with applicable law,” Cipollone wrote in a letter to Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings. “We will not concede the Executive's constitutional prerogatives or allow the Committee to jeopardize the individual privacy rights of current and former Executive Branch employees.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-tells-dems-it-wont-hand-over-kushner-security-clearance-docs/ar-BBUpBMx?ocid=spartanntp

[bigtree]

1. good

...have a judge order them turned over.

No more negotiations.

[malaise]

3. That simple

The con may think he's the holey moran emperor but that's a figment of his imagination

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. hmmmm

2 U.S. Code § 194 - Certification of failure to testify or produce; grand jury action

Whenever a witness summoned as mentioned in section 192 of this title fails to appear to testify or fails to produce any books, papers, rec­ords, or documents, as required, or whenever any witness so summoned refuses to answer any question pertinent to the subject under inquiry before either House, or any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or any committee or subcommittee of either House of Congress, and the fact of such failure or failures is reported to either House while Congress is in session or when Congress is not in session, a statement of fact constituting such failure is reported to and filed with the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House, it shall be the duty of the said President of the Senate or Speaker of the House, as the case may be, to certify, and he shall so certify, the statement of facts aforesaid under the seal of the Senate or House, as the case may be, to the appropriate United States attorney, whose duty it shall be to bring the matter before the grand jury for its action.
(R.S. § 104; July 13, 1936, ch. 884, 49 Stat. 2041; June 22, 1938, ch. 594, 52 Stat. 942.)

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2. Subpoena time.

[lunatica]

4. Popcorn time!

[Sherman A1]

6. Yup

[PJMcK]

5. Hey, DU lawyers!

What observations can any of you provide as to the sustainability of Cipollone's position? Will it withstand a court challenge? Is there any past law or other precedent?

Thank you, in advance.

[Instant Liberal]

7. So basically they're saying

That yeah, Trump DID order Kushner's clearance and asking for documentation will prove that. Since there likely isn't documentation illustrating how his clearance was given.

[marble falls]

8. They'd still be liable if there weren't any records, its not like he found his clearence under ...

his pillow. They're better off with the records.

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10. welcome to DU