Republicans Block Effort To Revoke Jared Kushners Security Clearance....

[HipChick]

WASHINGTON ― House Republicans voted Thursday to block an effort aimed at revoking the security clearance of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner.

Several members of Congress have questioned the appropriateness of Kushner maintaining a security clearance following bombshell reports that he met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer who promised incriminating information about 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during last year’s campaign. The president’s son-in-law failed to disclose the meeting, as well as several other meetings with Russian officials, on the security clearance form he submitted before the Trump administration took office.

Knowingly omitting such information is a crime. Kushner’s lawyers, however, maintain the omissions were an error and have amended the form.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who chaired the Democratic National Committee during much of last year’s campaign cycle, proposed an amendment targeting Kushner during a House Appropriations Committee markup session Thursday. It was voted down, 22-30, along party lines.

The measure would have barred the government from issuing or maintaining a security clearance for any White House individual “under a criminal investigation by a Federal law enforcement agency for aiding a foreign government.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jared-kushner-security-clearance_us_596783aae4b0a0c6f1e67433?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

[madaboutharry]

1. Disgraceful

[Raster]

2. It was voted down, 22-30, along party lines.

Accomplices, co-conspirators and collaborators.

[Shell_Seas]

3. I don't even understand this anymore.

[Delphinus]

4. OMG!

How can they allow this? If they don't stop it, they are guilty of aiding and abetting (I would think).

[BigmanPigman]

5. I need to take a Xanax the size of a football now! AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!

[gratuitous]

6. Good; keep bringing it up

I want to see the fingerprints of every last grasping one of those Republican enablers and accomplices all over this shitshow. I don't want any of them to say later, "Gosh, we didn't know" or "I was against this all the time, it's just that nobody asked me."

[oasis]

9. I agree. They'll likely end up in campaign ads linked to "Jaibird Jared". nt

[RT Atlanta]

12. well said

and I agree 100% with your sentiment

[flor-de-jasmim]

7. Who actually believes revocation would affect his access? Ivanka, Prez, etc.

[mopinko]

13. that's the thing.

i wonder who else he is blabbing our secrets to.

[SusanaMontana41]

20. I think it would help. Kushner

would have to leave his White House job. That's a good first step. Sets him up for more punishment when Mueller publishes his findings.

If Ivanka or Trumpf Jr choose to break the law, prosecute.

[jpak]

8. Aiding and abetting

and probably on the take from the Kremlin too.

yup

[Gothmog]

10. These Republicans are putting party ahead of country

[Butterflylady]

15. There in lies the real question.

Why are repugs trying to destroy this country? What's in it for them.

[SusanaMontana41]

21. Americans have to decide whether they're patriots

or partisans. We cannot be both.

Repigs just confirmed what we already knew about them.

[Efilroft Sul]

16. And the party they're putting before America is Putin's United Russia Party.

[RT Atlanta]

11. Jeezus...

What are those clowns looking for?

They have also inextricably tied themselves to that sinking ship. Hope that their future political opponents do not let their constituents forget about that.

[GoCubsGo]

14. This tells you everyithing you want to know about the republicans.

Most of us here have known it for decades. Hopefully, the rest of the country will have their eyes opened now.

[mgardener]

17. Send them an email

Just sent the chair an email. Stating my displeasure that they did not revoke Jared K security clearance

Appropriations.house.gov/contact

Phone number 202 225 2771

It feels good to vent, but be respectful.

[Duppers]

18. I thought that it's up to the FBI to revoke his

Security clearance.

[barbtries]

19. republicans.

craven, immoral, amoral motherfuckers every one.

[dalton99a]

22. Goddamn traitors, all of them

[NastyRiffraff]

23. Every one of them is a co-conspirator

They KNOW what Kushner did. Apparently it's just fine with them.

[Botany]

24. Treason

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treason

Definition of treason
1
: the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign's family
2
: the betrayal of a trust : treachery

Party over country.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141819744

Kushner adds 'more than 100 names' of foreign contacts he initially left out of required forms

[Amimnoch]

25. Fuck it. I say fight fire with fire!

We need all of our Democratic leadership to get on the news waves, on social media and start:

Asking China to hack Trump and RNC servers.
Start having secret (not so secret) meetings with Chinese hackers, connected Chinese lawyers, Chinese Ambassadors, and Chinese officials.
Work with Chinese hackers to spam social media with fake accounts attacking Rumpus and the Rumpublican leadership.
etc.. etc.. etc..

Force their corrupt hands to do something about it.

I've a strong suspicion the China could whip the hell out of the Russians in this area.

[MelissaB]

28. Just ask Five Eyes and other intelligence agencies to release what they have on Trump.

End of game. We win.

[magicarpet]

26. Imagine the Re-thug response if it was the Obama or Clinton admin. instead of their boy shitgib.

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. GOP doesnt give a shit about our security.

[CincyDem]

29. So we now have 30 republicans on record saying "It's ok to be aiding a foreign gov't".

Dems have got to figure out how to ram this message down their throats come 11/18. I know there will be a lot of water under the bridge but none of them should be able to hold on to the party of national security badge after this.

[Initech]

30. These people just fucking suck.Sh

Should Jared Kushner be given security clearance after what happened this week? Fucking hell no!!!

[wishstar]

31. They haven't passed a bill to stop Trump from lifting sanctions either

Sure looks like Ryan and others in Repub leadership are compromised or very afraid of being on Trumputin' s blacklist