Dem Reps: Suspend Kushner Security Clearance For Undisclosed Meetings

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By MATT SHUHAM PublishedAPRIL 13, 2017, 1:01 PM EDT

A group of Democratic members of Congress has requested that President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have his top secret security clearance revoked following revelations that he omitted meetings with foreign officials on his application for the clearance.

The New York Times reported on April 6, citing unnamed people with direct knowledge of the omissions, that Kushner had not included a December meeting with the Russian ambassador in Trump Tower on his application, and a meeting with the head of a Russian state-owned bank, Vnesheconombank, the same month.

“Given the severity of the allegations and still unanswered questions about this administration’s recently uncovered covert dealings with Russian government and intelligence officials, we are requesting that Mr. Kushner’s interim top-secret security clearance be suspended pending a review of Mr. Kushner’s compliance with the laws and regulation governing security clearances,” a letter from five Democratic congressmen to the FBI and the National Background Investigations Bureau read.

Its signatories are Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Peter Welch (D-VT). The congressmen also asked Kushner himself to make public all meetings he had with foreign officials during his father-in-law’s presidential campaign and transition period.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/democratic-representatives-kushner-security-clearance-omitted-meetings

[niyad]

1. "lock him up" ??

[lark]

2. Lieu rocks!

The others must be pretty good too since they also signed.

[bettyellen]

3. Ive met Nadler and I love him!

[Achilleaze]

4. Defend America

Keep republican liars & complicit, debt-encumbered republican-russian symps out of our national security meetings.

[jmowreader]

5. Also revoke his father-in-law's clearance

Reading TS documents after North Korea's missile test in a room full of his resort guests, none of whom have been investigated, is enough.

[erronis]

6. Wouldn't make any difference. dt already knows everything

Doesn't really have time to read TS documents except maybe to impress guests in the dining room at his swamp hotel in Florida.

He can decide to press red buttons or twit without a clearance. Well, maybe iWanka's.

[HopeAgain]

7. I'm a pragmatist as well as a partisan...

Kushner seems to be the only thing keeping Trump from going full Bannon. I'm not sure from a purely pragmatic standpoint, we want to exclude the most liberal member of the administration from the White House while Bannon is hanging around outside the oval office. Just saying.

[FakeNoose]

8. Yep

I'm no admirer of Kushner but it does seem like these recent flip-flips of presidential policy are happening for a reason.
Like maybe, Bannon's out and Kushner is finally able to change his mind about some things?

It might actually be a good sign, until it isn't.

[nitpicker]

9. Link to the PR from Rep. Beyer's office

http://bluevirginia.us/2017/04/27712