Breaking: House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings is moving toward a vote to hold the former White House personnel security director in contempt after he refused to answer the committee's questions
House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings is moving toward a vote to hold the former White House personnel security director in contempt after he refused to answer the committee's questions.The White House asked the former official to not speak with the committee following allegations that the administration approved security clearances for those who should not have received them.
It's the latest in a series of aggressive responses from the Trump administration to House Democrats pressing multiple investigative threads, including a lawsuit the White House filed on Monday against a House committee chairman to protect Trump's financial records. White House deputy counsel Michael Purpura sent a letter Monday asking the former security director, Carl Kline, not to answer questions because it “unconstitutionally encroaches on fundamental executive branch interests.”
Kline's attorney, Robert Driscoll, wrote a subsequent letter to the committee that Kline would not answer questions. “With two masters from two equal branches of government, we will follow the instructions of the one that employs him,” Driscoll wrote in the letter to the committee. The decision came after White House employee Tricia Newbold, a whistleblower told the committee that senior officials ignored national security concerns to approve security clearances for 25 individuals whose applications were initially denied. Newbold described a “systematic” pattern of abuses on the part of Kline.
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