Jared Kushner updated his security form, suddenly remembered more than 100 foreign contacts

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10. He was likely granted a provisional clearance as soon as he submitted

The sponsoring agency has the ability to grant a provisional cleanrace pending adjudication. But, they are supposed to do so based upon their confidence that the application was complete and will be approved.

In this case the sponsoring agency is the executive branch/ White House. I am wondering if they submitted that incomplete SF-86 to OPM after the inauguration or before. Regardless the transition people were responsible to make sure it was complete, but if done before the inauguration someone in the outgoing administration should have raised the huge red flag.

Sadly, if they really did submit it with all the foreign contact listings totally blank and his lawyer is willing to take the fall for accidentally submitting a "draft" and then they made what appear to be efforts to correct the record before OPM raised questions the odds of him every being charged are slim to none. Unless you could find smoking gun emails or other records indicating they knowingly hid contacts their explanation it was a lawyers error submitting the draft will be enough to have reasonable doubt. We all know it's BS, but it's good enough BS to keep him out of trouble.