Key Aide Couldnt Get A Security Clearance Under A President Who Likely Couldnt Either
Source: Huffington Post
WASHINGTON ― As questions swirl about how a top aide could work at the White House for a year despite his inability to qualify for a security clearance, critics point to what they believe is the root problem: Neither could his boss, President Donald Trump.
All eyes are on former staff secretary Rob Porter, who resigned after reports detailed domestic violence accusations by his ex-wives, and White House chief of staff John Kelly, whose credibility is now under question after his defenses of his key aide shifted. The accusations of the two former wives likely blocked Porters security clearance application.
Yet lost in the latest controversy of the Trump presidency is the near certainty that Trump himself would fail a security clearance application. As the elected president, he is not required to possess one to have access to the nations most closely held information.
Without that exemption, though, a financial history that includes four business bankruptcies and allegations of fraud as well as sexual misconduct accusations by nearly two dozen women would raise multiple red flags, said a former Defense Department official who once held a top-secret clearance himself.
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What is new here is that not only did Rob Porter not have a security clearance -- he couldn't get one. He had FAILED to get a security clearance and there was no excuse to keep him in the job.
DT wouldn't have cared, though, because he wouldn't have qualified either.
Who else wouldn't qualify? Kushner, probably. Who else?
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Is it the Chief of Staff's job to stay on top of this? There has been such a turnover lately that I've lost track.
Maybe there's another person whose only job is dogging the security?
Asking for a friend.
