It feels obvious, that it’s been long enough, that none of the people still on temporary clearances were able to pass for an actual clearance.
My guess is the FBI came back with issues, the Whitehouse didn’t care about the issue. So, they couldn’t get actual clearances because of the issue and the Whitehouse plan was to just continue on the temporary one forever. It’s only the news story that’s making them change plans.
Just like when the president can declassify something even if there are objections. He can just ignore the issue.
It has only been a bit over a year. OPM clearance investigations can drag on for two years in some cases. Granted, they usually only take about a year but it is not unheard of for them to drag on longer.
Yay. Something that should have happened on day one, i.e. he never should have had security clearance, happened on day 403. And there was much rejoicing. Yay.
But he still gets to keep his secret decoder ring.
Gonna be hard to pressure those foreign banks, investors and sovereign wealth funds for loans to meet the refi deadline on 666 Fifth Ave without the dirt in those intelligence reports.
Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience, according to current and former U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports on the matter.
Among those nations discussing ways to influence Kushner to their advantage were the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel and Mexico, the current and former officials said.
Sadly whatever he knows from being exposed to top secret information stays with him. I’m not sure he’s a peddler in state secrets but I’m just going to state that it wouldn’t surprise me that he’d turn traitor to get a buck.
I just saw this. I can’t believe that he still has a Secret level clearance given this kind of information.
"H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s national security adviser, learned that Kushner had contacts with foreign officials that he did not coordinate through the National Security Council or officially report. "
WTF? et tu *Ivanka?
*According to Politicoboth Jared and Ivanka now have to go thru Kelly now implying that perhaps Ivanka has lost her clearance as well.
Considering 45 probably couldn’t get clearance for the keys to the employee restroom if he weren’t president, I’m not surprised there are some special exemptions.
ALL of Obama’s team secured clearances before inauguration - they started the process well before the election in case they won.
Up to 2-years is normal-ish for ‘normal’ positions (as normal as any position which requires TS can be), but can be, and is, expedited for WH staff.
What difference does it make, Trump himself still has access to the most sensitive intelligence info, and you know he would just blab it to anyone like he was showing off to kids in the schoolyard.
No argument that Trump’s team also dropped the ball here, although to be fair they didn’t have a reasonable expectation of winning. Also, Trump’s tardiness with nominating people for his staff exacerbated the situation.
