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Jared Kushner identified as senior White House official whose security clearance was denied by career officials
By Tom Hamburger ,
Rachael Bade and
Ashley Parker
The senior White House official whose security clearance was denied last year because of concerns about foreign influence, private business interests and personal conduct is presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to people familiar with documents and testimony provided to the House Oversight Committee.
Kushner was identified only as Senior White House Official 1 in committee documents released this week describing the testimony of Tricia Newbold, a whistleblower in the White Houses personnel security office who said she and another career employee determined that Kushner had too many significant disqualifying factors to receive a clearance.
Their decision was overruled by Carl Kline, the political appointee who then headed the office, according to Newbolds interview with committee staff.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jared-kushner-identified-as-senior-white-house-official-whose-security-clearance-was-denied-by-career-officials/2019/04/03/fefa8dbe-5623-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html?utm_term=.a90219db36d6
blogslut
(37,997 posts)PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)You know those New York high rollers...
llmart
(15,536 posts)I thought we already knew this?
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)I guess because the whistleblower's Congressional testimony just identified him as Senior White House Official 1.
llmart
(15,536 posts)I was just surprised that it was a new headlines. I guess this just makes it official.
We'll see what happens or whether there are no consequences as usual.
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)clearance over intelligence community objections.
pnwmom
(108,973 posts)or what the particular reasons were for his initial denial.
keithbvadu2
(36,747 posts)To Jared, a security clearance is a license to sell our country's secrets.
manor321
(3,344 posts)madaboutharry
(40,203 posts)Ivanka: "There was a backlog of thousands of Federal workers waiting for clearances...."
"My father had nothing to do with my security clearance or my husband's."
Abby Huntsman (trying to get a real answer): "What was the problem?"
Ivanka: "Nothing..Nothing..there was no problem."