Trump close adviser Kushner loses access to coveted intelligence briefing - sources

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Wonder why?

How many more of trumps insiders have skeletons that are precluding them from getting clearance?
 
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Septic said:
Wonder why?

How many more of trumps insiders have skeletons that are precluding them from getting clearance?
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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.

Now, Trump could grant his son-in-law permanent security clearance if he wanted to... but that probably wouldn't be very smart as long as the possibility that Kushner could be indicted still lingers. Kushner is the most glaring example of nepotism that I can think of in our government.
 
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Septic said:
Wonder why?

How many more of trumps insiders have skeletons that are precluding them from getting clearance?
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Amazing that HRC and her staffers still have security clearances which means they have all access to classified files and docs.
 
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I still question the OP in posting all of these threads. Rarely makes comments on them after dropping them off.
 
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So two things. One he didn’t lose his clearance. His “interim” TS (and I still don’t understand how that is a thing. Not going to expand) has been downgraded to a Secret, not clear if that is interim or has been granted.

Two, Trump is not interfering. His chief of staff put new rules in place a while back and this is the manifestation of those rules

No where was there a statement of adverse information. Rather it was just a lack of completion of the background check the way it reads. Frankly sounds like working as intended.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
So two things. One he didn’t lose his clearance. His “interim” TS (and I still don’t understand how that is a thing. Not going to expand) has been downgraded to a Secret, not clear if that is interim or has been granted.

Two, Trump is not interfering. His chief of staff put new rules in place a while back and this is the manifestation of those rules

No where was there a statement of adverse information. Rather it was just a lack of completion of the background check the way it reads. Frankly sounds like working as intended.
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That is what it sounds like to me as well except that it's definitely not normal for someone to be working on an interim security clearance at the highest level for over a year - as Jared Kushner was allowed to.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
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.

Now, Trump could grant his son-in-law permanent security clearance if he wanted to... but that probably wouldn't be very smart as long as the possibility that Kushner could be indicted still lingers. Kushner is the most glaring example of nepotism that I can think of in our government.
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Aaaaaand ... the Democrats sure do love them some Kennedy though, don't they? And some Clinton, Brown, Pelosi, Cuomo,.......

The Party of Old Nepotistic Hacks

Nepotism runs the gamut of the political spectrum, and it often blurs the organizational structure where subordinates wrongly impute authority to where it doesn't belong.

Kelly has said Kuschner will have all the access he needs for his position. This will be so for Kuschner's temporary access clearance until all the red tape for his permanent clearance has passed through proper channels.

And that can take up to or over a year. I have seen Oak Ridge workers Q-clearances (etc) take more than 9 months, and a couple very close to a year. This was before cuts in personnel who do the investigations. Add in the probability some of the current investigators may do a bit of Democratic goldbricking and new clearances for Republican officials could easily go over a year.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
That is what it sounds like to me as well except that it's definitely not normal for someone to be working on an interim security clearance at the highest level for over a year - as Jared Kushner was allowed to.
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Do you work in anything involving a security clearance?

Multiple people in my company have worked at the same level clearance and remained in interim status for longer than a year- one went nearly 24 months as an 'interim' while bureaucratic issues were ironed out.

Even the lower clearance employees in our company are on interim status frequently. There was an enormous backlog of these things in late 2016.
 
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ButchPlz said:
Do you work in anything involving a security clearance?

Multiple people in my company have worked at the same level clearance and remained in interim status for longer than a year- one went nearly 24 months as an 'interim' while bureaucratic issues were ironed out.

Even the lower clearance employees in our company are on interim status frequently. There was an enormous backlog of these things in late 2016.
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Can you people read? I'm not talking about your company or Oak Ridge... I said an interim security clearance at the highest level.... Meaning that Kushner was allowed to see the White House Daily brief involving our nation's most sensitive classified information while on an interim clearance for more than a year. That is not normal per former White House Chief of Staff James Baker under Reagan (alas not my words).
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Can you people read? I'm not talking about your company or Oak Ridge... I said an interim security clearance at the highest level.... Meaning that Kushner was allowed to see the White House Daily brief involving our nation's most sensitive classified information while on an interim clearance for more than a year. That is not normal per former White House Chief of Staff James Baker under Reagan (alas not my words).
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Baker has been out of the WH for almost 30 years, normal changes.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
That is what it sounds like to me as well except that it's definitely not normal for someone to be working on an interim security clearance at the highest level for over a year - as Jared Kushner was allowed to.
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There are methods to grant interim clearances at some levels based on simple rules and checks.

To Trump’s credit he is leaving this alone. POTUS has original classification authority he’s it. And by delegation to his cabinet members. I believe if he wanted to he could step in. I would assume Kelly explained at what cost that would come though.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
He was certainly close to the George W. Bush White House - if not in an official capacity.
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Well then...You get to say you know better.

Better than top secret, crypto, Q cleared, need to know, folk who have, say, worked on the design/facility construction/ manufacture of some of America's most devastating weapons systems ... among other things.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Can you people read? I'm not talking about your company or Oak Ridge... I said an interim security clearance at the highest level.... Meaning that Kushner was allowed to see the White House Daily brief involving our nation's most sensitive classified information while on an interim clearance for more than a year. That is not normal per former White House Chief of Staff James Baker under Reagan (alas not my words).
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Panties = Wad
 
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