.MaddowBlog: On Jared Kushner's security clearance, Pres. Trump has some explaining to do.
When Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, applied for a top-secret clearance as part of his White House duties, career officials balked. The president’s right-hand man nevertheless ended up with the security clearance, giving Kushner access to many of the nation’s most sensitive secrets.
The Washington Post published a related article of its own, reporting that Kushner and Ivanka Trump “pressured the president to grant Kushner the long-delayed clearance,” at which point the president “instructed” his White House chief of staff to resolve the matter, overriding the objections of career U.S. intelligence officials.
The president himself said in a New York Times interview last month that he had nothing to do with Kushner getting a security clearance. Ivanka Trump said the same thing, recently telling ABC News that her father “had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband’s clearance, zero.”At a certain level, it’s easy to understand why.
It’d be interesting to know what kind of “bad stuff” security professionals found in Kushner’s background. For context, let’s note that the Washington Post reported a year ago this week that officials from a variety of countries privately discussed ways they could “manipulate Jared Kushner … by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience.
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