The reason Kushner does not have a security clearance is because ....

[Botany]

.... HE DID NOT PASS HIS BACKGROUND CHECK. Anything else is pure b.s..

Regarding the mortgage for 666 Fifth Avenue: “The company still holds half of a $1.2
billion mortgage, on which it hasn’t paid a cent. The full amount is due in February 2019.”

https://ny.curbed.com/2017/8/31/16233330/kushner-companies-666-fifth-avenue-finances

[geardaddy]

1. 666 Fifth Ave. huh?

[Wounded Bear]

6. It's such an appropriate address...

[TwistOneUp]

7. Yeah...

Why aren't the fundagelicals all about that address?

MUST MEAN *SOMETHING*. (sorry to shout...)

I mean, really. There's a biblical impact on everything humans do - just ask a fundagelical. Kush doesn't get off the address issue just cuz he's a member of one of the tribes, like me. The fundagelicals call me and my peeps derogatory names daily, and preach that we killed Jesus. Why does Kush get off the hook so easy? He's got over half billion smackolas tied up in a building with a Sign Of The Beast address! *Somebody* is going to eternal damnation for this!

[calimary]

8. Hard not to notice.

Equally hard not to appreciate the irony.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Just fine with the Evangelicals. . . . . . nt

[ProudLib72]

14. It's "evilgelicals" on DU now.

[poboy2]

2. Hammer...

The WH needs to keep being HAMMERED on this.

ALL those w/failed or provisional clearance MUST GO NOW.

THERE IS NO WORKAROUND.


GO

NOW


National Security is at stake.

[Botany]

3. It looks like Kushner got into the campaign and worked for free for Donny is to find a way

to find some big money to pay off his debts like Paul Manafort.

OK I know owing China 1.2 billion might be a problem but the real
thing to worry about is Hillary's emails.

[flibbitygiblets]

11. Obviously.

[mahina]

4. And he broke the law by repeatedly lying on the application.

How does this end for Jared?

Or is it now ‘innapropriate’ to bring it up, like 45’s assaults against women, according the the princess?

It’s innapropriate to talk about it but it was fine to do.

Bye Jared!

[malaise]

5. Yep

That and the family's eagerness to trade visas for loans for said property.

[thbobby]

9. Same as I was thinking

With all the grifting we know about, what does Mueller know? What does only the Chinese or Russians know? Kushner requested more confidential material than anyone. He sees trump's briefings. I KNOW but can't prove we are being sold out to Russians and maybe Chinese. Thankful that the republican Mueller is smarter than the grifting assholes in the White House.

[JI7]

12. What happens if he doesn't pay it ?

[BigmanPigman]

15. NOTHING!

Look at his own father and moron-in-law as examples. Jarvanka have $144 million new debt for this year alone!
Last week the Fucking Moron was telling the GOP audience at CPAC that the princess and hubby are so wonderful to be working for free and visiting S Korea for FREE (he kept repeating it). Manafort worked for FREE too. Gee, I wonder why? DUH! He must think we are as stupid as he is.

[Butterflylady]

13. Kushner's ripe for blackmail.

[braddy]

16. The President is the final authority on these matters.

"In fact, the security clearance system itself is an expression of presidential authority. Its scope and operation are defined in an executive order (EO 12968), and its terms can be modified by the President at will.
And if the President wished to grant access to classified information to a family member, for example, there would be no legal barrier to doing so." source-- https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2016/11/clearances-presidential/

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“The president can authorize clearance for anyone he wants,” said Steven Aftergood, director of the project on government secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists. “It’s part of his commander-in-chief role. He has broad, essentially unlimited, access in this area.”
Like anyone else, Mr. Kushner would be subject to a background check by the F.B.I. But the president’s authority is so broad, Mr. Aftergood said, that he could override red flags — like fraud, huge personal debt or ties to foreign governments — that would disqualify other applicants." source-- https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/us/politics/jared-kushner-trump-family.html

[GusFring]

17. The entire family seems to owe more than they're worth, but they're rich? How? I want to live like

That