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UpInArms

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Thu Apr 4, 2019, 11:20 AM Apr 2019

Jared Kushner identified as the White House official who was denied security clearance

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 House’s 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 Newbold's interview with Oversight Committee staff.

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“It shows a disregard for the national security of the country if the professionals in the intelligence committee believed Jared Kushner shouldn’t get a security clearance, and the president overrode that decision to give him one,” said House Intelligence Committee member Joaquin Castro (D-Texas).

More at https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-jared-kushner-white-house-security-clearance-20190403-story.html?outputType=amp

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Jared Kushner identified as the White House official who was denied security clearance (Original Post) UpInArms Apr 2019 OP
Kick dalton99a Apr 2019 #1
Impeach ScratchCat Apr 2019 #2
Mueller was supposed to be looking into connections between the Trump campaign and Perrenial Voter Apr 2019 #3
 

Perrenial Voter

(173 posts)
3. Mueller was supposed to be looking into connections between the Trump campaign and
Thu Apr 4, 2019, 11:55 AM
Apr 2019

Saudia Arabia, Israel, and Qatar, the very countries with which Kushner has connections. My suspicion is that he put the foreign policy of the country up for sale.

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