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Old 02-28-2019, 05:02 PM
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Trump Orders a Top Secret Clearance for Kushner

WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials and the White House’s top lawyer, four people briefed on the matter said.

Mr. Trump’s decision in May so troubled senior administration officials that at least one, the White House chief of staff at the time, John F. Kelly, wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been “ordered” to give Mr. Kushner the top-secret clearance.

The White House counsel at the time, Donald F. McGahn II, also wrote an internal memo outlining the concerns that had been raised about Mr. Kushner — including by the C.I.A. — and how Mr. McGahn had recommended that he not be given a top-secret clearance.

The disclosure of the memos contradicts statements made by the president, who told The New York Times in January in an Oval Office interview that he had no role in his son-in-law receiving his clearance.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/u...clearance.html

So, a guy who is the subject of a counterintelligence investigation gave another potential counterintelligence asset (Kushner) access to the most sensitive intelligence in the world (and then lies about it).
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Old 02-28-2019, 07:18 PM
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Hey, the Trump crime family business can't make their billions off the Saudis, Russians, Chinese, and idiot Trumpkins without knowing their best-kept secrets!
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