BREAKING: Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence

[sunonmars]

Link to tweet

Presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has had his security clearance downgraded — a move that will prevent him from viewing many of the sensitive documents to which he once had unfettered access.

Kushner is not alone. All White House aides working on the highest-level interim clearances — at the Top Secret/SCI-level — were informed in a memo sent Friday that their clearances would be downgraded to the Secret level, according to three people with knowledge of the situation.


The SCI acronym stands for sensitive compartmentalized information, a category of information that comes from sensitive intelligence sources and must be walled off.

The memo was not signed by chief of staff John Kelly, but it comes as the retired Marine general and other top White House aides are grappling with the fallout of a scandal involving former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, which revealed that dozens of White House aides had yet to receive permanent clearances but nonetheless had access to some of the country’s deepest secrets.


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Something is happening, his spokesperson quit, now this, Guess Kushner is going to get the bullet.

[malaise]

1. Oh My - off to the greatest page

LOCK HIM UP!

[Fullduplexxx]

2. This may be the reason for WITCHHUNT tweet

Kr

[OhNo-Really]

8. Yes,mbut still gets to see sensitive docs. Wtfuery?

The New York Shillbillies have to go!

[TNLib]

3. Was wondering about the crazy Trump tweets today

Now wondering if Kushner is about to go down or if Trump just forgot to take his meds.

[BigmanPigman]

5. He was also doing the tweeting since his darling Hope Hicks was being

questioned by the House Intel. CNN said that she gave the "May Day signal" during testimony to signal the Moron that she was under duress and to help her with distractions.

[BigmanPigman]

4. This was due to his "background"

but no other info was given for the reason of pulling his clearance. Jake Tapper (CNN) couldn't give any more details for the reason behind it. We know he is financially motivated though ($144 million further in debt this year alone). This is significant enough for Kelly to go through with it given the serious info from the FBI.

[sunonmars]

6. He should be out of there. Period.

[dchill]

27. Let's face it, they all should be out of there.

[Iliyah]

7. Do anyone from the WH or closely affiliated with t-rump and the GOPs

have any respect for the rule nor laws, the answer is a big fat No.

JK will still view whatever he wants.

[FSogol]

9. Now they'll never be peace in the Middle East. I hope you are all happy.

[Generic Brad]

15. You win the internet today!

Best response anywhere over the last 24 hours!

[ProudLib72]

19. Oh noes! And he was so close to working out a deal for dad in law to touch the orb a second time!

[smirkymonkey]

23. He was our last great hope.

I guess it's all up to Steven Miller now.

[NCjack]

24. Indeed -- you are today's winner. Jared needs to learn to walk on the sunny side.

Now that he is deprived of the info needed to perform the many services assigned by Donnie "the chin" (Leader of the GOP mafia), he can focus on renting out space at "Beast" 5th Ave, his flagship.

[HipChick]

10. Difference between Secret and Top Secret..

so does he still have Interim secret?

[sunonmars]

11. Trump screwed Kushner, but of course made someone else do it. Thats his MO, always someone else.

[maxsolomon]

12. ROFL

[DFW]

13. He never should have had it in the first place

Of course, neither should his father-in-law.

[Lee-Lee]

14. A TS/SCI takes a while to adjudicate even when all is perfect

But at that level they get fast tracked so it should take longer than 6 months.

They just have found some serious issues they can’t resolve yet.

Since he was still on an interim that means he wasn’t denied, indicating that they apparently are still working on it.

But to be on the top of the priority list and be 14+ months in and not done yet means there were a lot of red flags that caused them to dig deeper.

[mythology]

20. Given how many times he's had to revise his disclosures

somehow conveniently forgetting many ties to foreign entities, it's hardly surprising. The difference is they are used to just being able to snarl orders at terrified underlings and they can't do that here.

[Lee-Lee]

35. I help and supervise people doing their SF-86s for my job

I absolutely can’t inagine the nightmare of one like his with so many foreign contacts and business connections and debts.

[NightWatcher]

25. I've seen multiple reports that he cannot get a clearance because of shit that is currently happenin

Then this afternoon news comes out from 4 countries that they have been able to manipulate Jared and his finances.

The trump crime family is actively committing crimes as we speak and they are setting us up so that we cannot defend ourselves from continued attacks in the future.

He needs to be arrested, not just downgraded.

[AdamGG]

16. Someone who sought to get back channel access through Russian embassies should have ZERO access

That's basic.

[Texin]

17. Well... not to sound pessimistic here, but tRump will tell him anything he wants to know.

And if he doesn't, Ivanka will.

[Hulk]

18. Does anyone seriously think this makes any difference....

...to private Bonespurs? Please. That lard ass Jabba the Hut will share EVERYTHING with ANYBODY he wants to.

We have seen REPEATEDLY, this jackass has ZERO disciple and does damn well whatever he pleases. He is the epitome of a spoiled brat. To hell with Anerica and it's rules of law.

[poboy2]

21. I keep saying...

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.

[Thrill]

22. Shouldnt even be in the WH after lying on his clearance forms

[quartz007]

26. I had Top Secret Q clearance

during my job at a gov't funded laboratory. If I can get that clearance as a foreign born naturalized citizen, I am shocked the president's son-in-law can not get it.

There has to be something bad in Kushner's background. may be smoking ganja? Or contacts with enemies of United States?

[The_Casual_Observer]

30. He has a bunch of financial problems that make him vunerable to blackmail I guess.

[braddy]

31. The reality is that the President can legally share anything he wants with Kushner, or anyone else.

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

[quartz007]

34. Yes, I am fully aware of that fact.

So....if even Donny is afraid to declare Kushner be given top secret clearance, there must be something not kosher behind the curtain.

So Donny has passed the buck to his chief of staff.

[braddy]

36. As someone here said, Trump is letting someone else do the dirty work on Kushner.

[The_Casual_Observer]

28. Wasn't he also heading up Industrial Innovations and the drug problem too at one time?

This guy was the one man army in the beginning and now he can't even get a fucking clearance. What a fool.

[Pachamama]

29. He should never have had access to Top Secret/Classified Info in the first place....

It is simply shocking that he and others have been allowed that access to begin with....

Imagine if for the last year, all these people have had the access and have been agents for Russia or another Nation...

[PunksMom]

32. Do you actually think

this will be enforced? I do t trust anything or anyone associated with that family.

[zentrum]

39. Agree. Trump

….will tell him anything and everything.

And the foreign deal makers know it. The potential quid pro quo remains, as far as I can tell.

[mnmoderatedem]

33. about fucking time but the damage is done

Gawd only knows what critical intelligence he has been exposed to over the past 1+ years and how vulnerable he is to blackmail.

[chwaliszewski]

37. This tweet says it all!

Link to tweet

[zentrum]

38. Does this even make a difference?

Trump will just tell him all the inside secrets anyway so that Kushner can go on doing his corrupt deals—with plausible deniability now.