BREAKING: Whistleblower says WH Officials overruled security clearance concerns for 25 staffers

[brooklynite]

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1. i hope the next president razes the white house and rebuilds it from scratch.

aside from whatever they're doing now, i fully expect them to try to bug the next administration.

[Dave Starsky]

4. You know there are now more Russian bugs in the White House...

Than there are in the mattresses at the Hotel Vladimir.

[ScratchCat]

2. If you could just get an honest Trumpster

to rationally explain why this man should continue to be President...

[VWolf]

9. "honest trumpster" is an oxymoron n/t

[malaise]

3. Get thee to the greatest page

Who will lock up these MFs?

[C_U_L8R]

5. Trump blames somebody else in 5... 4... 3... 2...

What a predictable idiot.

[lpbk2713]

6. Not much point in going through the process for Trump stooges.

Not if they're going to be rubber stamped.

[The Blue Flower]

7. The horses have already left the barn

I think il drumpf has already done deep and long-lasting damage to this country. It will take more than disinfectant to reverse the stain and the stench. I pray our security agencies have had him under the microscope since he claimed the office.

[duforsure]

8. How long before it comes out...

.... that trump approved them to not fill they're security clearance forms correctly by not divulging any russian contacts all along. They be turning on him soon . Reporters should ask trump if he approved them doing that, and lying.

[FakeNoose]

10. I read Cliff Sims' book "Team of Vipers"

... and he tells an interesting story. He worked on Chump's campaign and then got a job at the White House for 1-1/2 years. The way Sims tells it, John Kelly would use security clearances as a way of regulating who got to work at the White House while he was Chief of Staff. If Chump tried to hire somebody that Kelly didn't like, whoops this person doesn't have a security clearance, so no-can-do.

Whenever Kelly liked the person, security clearance was very lax and he would give a "provisional" clearance for somebody who couldn't qualify otherwise. Rob Porter (a personal friend of Kelly's) got WH employment even though there were charges of spousal abuse against him, etc. Apparently the lax clearances for Jared and Ivanka were mishandled the same way, but when Kelly tried to cancel their provisional clearances, all-hell broke loose.

What I'm saying is, this could be another political can of Chump-worms!

[Vinca]

11. Don, as usual, has already given his "I know nothing" defense.

[MadDAsHell]

12. Unfortunately there's nothing prosecutable here, as this is what presidential authority allows.

"Whistleblower" alludes to illegal or fraudulent behavior, but unless the law has recently changed, the pResident has the authority to make clearance decisions, no matter how shitty he is.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. Perhaps proper security clearance needs to be enshrined into law....

by Congress. Including for any president elect.

[spanone]

13. In a normal world, this would be cause for impeachment.

[dlk]

14. Think of the Money to be Made Selling US Secrets...

[Quixote1818]

16. Dems should raise hell about this because you know Reps would if Obama had done this. nt