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Kushner requests more intel info than almost all White House staff

BY BRANDON CARTER - 02/17/18 09:05 AM EST 
 
President Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner has reportedly requested more intelligence information than almost every other White House official.

The Washington Post reports that Kushner, whose portfolio encompasses issues ranging from the Middle East peace process to modernizing the federal government’s use of technology, has put in more requests for U.S. intelligence information than any White House staffer not working for the National Security Council.

Kushner holds a Top Secret/sensitive compartmented information (SCI) security clearance, the highest level, which allows him to review some of the nation’s most closely-guarded secrets and allows him access to the presidential daily briefing, according to the Post.

 
He is one of reportedly dozens of White House officials who have been operating with temporary clearances during Trump’s first year in office, and his clearance could be in jeopardy following chief of staff John Kelly’s changes to the clearance process, the Post said.

In a memo released Friday, Kelly outlined a series of changes to the clearance process amid the controversy surrounding former staff secretary Rob Porter, who resigned over domestic abuse allegations.

“The American people deserve a White House staff that meets the highest standards and that has been carefully vetted—especially those who work closely with the president or handle sensitive national security information,” Kelly wrote in the memo. “We should — and in the future must — do better.”

The changes include calling on the FBI to specifically brief the White House counsel on any potential concerns flagged in a background check, aiming for the FBI to bring any problematic findings to the White House within two days of discovery, limiting new interim clearances to a maximum of 270 days and cutting off certain clearances for employees whose clearance investigations have been pending since before June 1, 2017. 

That change could impact Kushner, whose clearance has been pending since he began working in the Trump White House more than a year ago.

But in a statement to the Post, Kushner’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said Kelly’s memo “will not affect Mr. Kushner’s ability to continue to do the very important work he has been assigned by the president.”

Democrats and ethics groups have called on the White House to explain the delay in Kushner receiving his security clearance. The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint Thursday calling on the White House to revoke Kushner’s clearance.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/374356-kushner-requests-more-intel-info-than-almost-all-white-house-staff

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17 hours ago, revkevsdi said:

More like obsessed with rubbing Trumpsters noses in the shitty choice they made. 

WTF are you rambling about?  I talk to people every day who are happy as clams that he got elected.  Economy humming, all the rats are fleeing the swamp, their 401ks are on fire, and they just got a raise in the form of a tax break.  

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9 hours ago, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot said:

Never forget! 

Fucking best post you've made!

:saluting:

Fucking dumb ass! :pan:

Four American died and more injured while our embassy was wiped out and he thinks it's funny.   :kneebash:

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3 hours ago, Skidooski said:

Four American died and more injured while our embassy was wiped out and he thinks it's funny.   :kneebash:

Remember when George Bush joked about finding WMD’s in Iraq?  How many soldiers where dead by then?  

Bet you got really mad about that. 

Oh I forgot, those Benghazi hero’s are worth more than the ones who died in Iraq, Afghanistan and the ones who died when Trump sent them on a mission Obama wouldn’t.  

 

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1 hour ago, revkevsdi said:

Remember when George Bush joked about finding WMD’s in Iraq?  How many soldiers where dead by then?  

Bet you got really mad about that. 

Oh I forgot, those Benghazi hero’s are worth more than the ones who died in Iraq, Afghanistan and the ones who died when Trump sent them on a mission Obama wouldn’t.  

 

Do you seriously just blurt this type of stupid shit out on your own or does someone help you? You're a 50 some year old trapped in a 6 year olds mind. Maybe  have more PM correspondence with Slope and ask for help  :lol: 

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4 hours ago, DriftBusta said:

WTF are you rambling about?  I talk to people every day who are happy as clams that he got elected.  Economy humming, all the rats are fleeing the swamp, their 401ks are on fire, and they just got a raise in the form of a tax break.  

In fact the latest, Hope Hicks, just left yesterday and Jarhead isn’t likely too far behind now that he has the security clearance of a Walmart greeter

:bc:

 

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11 hours ago, Skidooski said:

Do you seriously just blurt this type of stupid shit out on your own or does someone help you? You're a 50 some year old trapped in a 6 year olds mind. Maybe  have more PM correspondence with Slope and ask for help  :lol: 

Why don’t you explain why those 4 Benghazi deaths were worth more than the people bushy killed or trump killed. 

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4 hours ago, revkevsdi said:

Why don’t you explain why those 4 Benghazi deaths were worth more than the people bushy killed or trump killed. 

:lol: You mentioned Bush and Trump but nowhere in there did you say anything about Obama killing people. Ooops

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Iraq and Afghan wars belong to Bush.  You Republicans claimed dead soldiers were a cost of doing business. Didn’t give a shit about dead soldiers until Benghazi. Then suddenly when trump sends soldiers to die, you suddenly don’t care again. 

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