WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House whistleblower has said the Trump administration overruled security experts to give questionable security clearances to more than two dozen people, including the president’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Tricia Newbold, a White House security adviser, told Democrats in Congress that clearances were initially denied to dozens of administration officials because of concerns over possible foreign influence, conflicts of interests, questionable or criminal conduct, financial problems or drug abuse.
She said President Donald Trump’s former White House personnel security director, Carl Kline, personally overruled the career officials’ judgements in the cases of two senior officials.
I was wondering about that.
Did they actually ever get security clearance?
The issue seemed to be that they couldn’t (due to clear links to questionable money sources and contacts) and still got all the sensitive info.
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1RD2PD/
So there’s really no point to the review process considering it can be overridden and it doesn’t even take the President himself to do it.
Bizarre, huh? Just about every day during that nightmare of an administration I’d find myself wondering what the fuck was going on.
They didn’t need it to profit from their positions.