Dozens at White House lack permanent security clearances

[getagrip_already]

15. I've held clearances....

They take a long time to complete if you aren't currently active (they deactivate you if you change jobs and no longer require access).

It isn't "unusual" for a clearance review to take a year to 18 months.

But, the protocol usually is that once the fbi determines you won't get a permanent clearance, you lose you temporary immediately.

Sometimes the delays are mundane - people you listed as knowing you 20 years ago can't be located so you need to give them other names. Sometimes, they are just sticky - like you have a foreign national in your family or you have close family members living abroad.

But everything we are hearing is not normal. To do the staff sec'y job, you literally need a security level so high, it's designation is classified. So does the chief of staff.

For this guy to be allowed to do that job a minute past the time they declined him even secret clearance is criminal. Of course, the president can grant him access directly, but there is no evidence he did that. Kelly doesn't have the authority to do that.