President/King Kushner under investigation

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Democrats investigate WH security clearances of Jared Kushner and other Trump associates
https://www.rt.com/usa/449525-us-democrats-probe-kushner/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have begun an investigation into the White House security clearance policy in a move that will likely focus on how Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner got access to classified information.

The committee said on Wednesday that it was launching an "in-depth investigation" into the security clearance process followed by Trump's transition team after he won the presidential election in 2016.

It said the investigation was a response to "grave breaches of national security at the highest levels" of the Trump administration.

The investigation follows a report last year that more than 130 political appointees working in the Executive Office of the President did not have permanent security clearances, including Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter.

Democrats are concerned that Kushner was targeted for manipulation by foreign governments.

In a letter to the White House, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, who chairs the Oversight committee said it wanted to know why the White House appeared to have "disregarded established procedures for safeguarding classified information" and to figure out "the extent to which the nation's most highly guarded secrets were provided to officials who should not have had access to them."

Kushner was given "top secret" clearance, which does not afford him access to the country's most heavily guarded intelligence, though he was still tasked with major responsibilities including negotiating a peace deal between Israel and Palestine and reforming the criminal justice system.

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Some guy named Kline approved a lot of questionable security clearances for Israhell and Donnie-boy.  Think Kline is a jew?   

...their supervisor, Carl Kline, overruled that decision and approved the clearance. Kushner's was "one of at least 30 cases" in which Kline did so, and they reported that the number of rejections overruled was "unprecedented."

NBC: Officials overruled after rejecting Kushner's top secret security clearance
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/25/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance-overruled/index.html

White House adviser Jared Kushner was rejected for a security clearance by two White House security specialists after his FBI background check raised concerns, but their supervisor overruled them and approved Kushner's top secret clearance, NBC News reported Thursday, citing two sources familiar with the matter.

CNN has not confirmed the report.

On Wednesday, Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, launched an investigation into the White House's security clearance process.
"My request letter to the White House explicitly covers Mr. Kushner, and we expect the White House to produce all of the documents and interviews we requested to determine if tonight's breaking story is accurate," Cummings said in a statement Thursday after the NBC report.

According to NBC, Kushner's FBI background check "identified questions about his family's business, his foreign contacts, his foreign travel and meetings he had during the campaign, the sources said, declining to be more specific."

According to NBC, two career White House security specialists denied Kushner's application for the top secret security clearance because of the red flags raised by the FBI background check about potential foreign influence, and their supervisor, Carl Kline, overruled that decision and approved the clearance. Kushner's was "one of at least 30 cases" in which Kline did so, and they reported that the number of rejections overruled was "unprecedented."

"It had only happened once in the three years preceding Kline's arrival" in May 2017, NBC reported.

The White House office determines eligibility for secret and top secret clearance, but Kushner, as one of Trump's top aides was seeking an even higher clearance known as "sensitive compartment information," according to NBC. That clearance is granted by the CIA.

According to NBC, again citing two people familiar with the matter, the CIA officers reviewing Kushner's information "balked" and "one called over to the White House security division, wondering how Kushner got even a top secret clearance." NBC reported that the CIA has not granted Kushner that SCI clearance.

CNN has reached out to the White House, and to Kushner's attorney Abbe Lowell, but have not received a comment.
"We don't comment on security clearances," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told NBC.

Cummings launched his investigation into the White House's security clearance process citing "grave breaches of national security at the highest levels of the Trump Administration."
The Maryland Democrat sent a letter to the White House requesting requested a range of documents related to the security clearance process.

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Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said on Thursday that his wide-ranging investigation into the White House's process for issuing security clearances "explicitly covers" Jared Kushner, after a new report characterized the way the White House senior adviser obtained his clearance as unprecedented.
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"The system is supposed to be a nonpartisan determination of an individual's fitness to hold a clearance, not an ad hoc approach that overrules career experts to give the president's family members access to our nation's most sensitive secrets."

Cummings: Security clearances probe 'explicitly covers' Kushner
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/24/congress-white-house-security-clearances-jared-kushner-1125443

Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said on Thursday that his wide-ranging investigation into the White House's process for issuing security clearances "explicitly covers" Jared Kushner, after a new report characterized the way the White House senior adviser obtained his clearance as unprecedented.

"My request letter to the White House explicitly covers Mr. Kushner, and we expect the White House to produce all of the documents and interviews we requested to determine if tonight's breaking story is accurate," Cummings (D-Md.) said.

"The system is supposed to be a nonpartisan determination of an individual's fitness to hold a clearance, not an ad hoc approach that overrules career experts to give the president's family members access to our nation's most sensitive secrets."

Kushner's application for a top secret security clearance was turned down by two career specialists who were then overruled in an unusual way by their superior, according to NBC's report.

Kushner, the president's son-in-law, was one of at least 30 cases in which former Pentagon employee Carl Kline turned down the advice of career specialists and granted top secret clearances, despite apparently concerning information existing. The report is based on two sources "familiar with the matter," which POLITICO has not independently verified.

The request for Kushner's clearance was hampered by his FBI background investigation, according to the report, which "identified questions about his family's business, his foreign contacts, his foreign travel and meetings he had during the campaign."

Cumming's probe, as POLITICO previously reported, also concerns a number of former administration officials including: former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his interactions with Russia during the transition; Rob Porter, a former White House staff secretary who resigned after multiple allegations of domestic abuse; and former deputy assistant to the president Sebastian Gorka.

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