By Josh Dawsey , Josh Dawsey Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow Seung Min Kim and Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email Bio Follow Shane Harris Shane Harris Intelligence and national security reporter Email Bio Follow February 28 at 8:50 PM President Trump early last year directed his then-chief of staff, John F.
It is unclear how Kelly responded to Trump’s directive. But by May, Kushner had been granted a permanent security clearance to view top-secret material — a move that followed months of concern inside the White House about his inability to secure such access. Trump’s push to get Kushner clearance — and the chief of staff’s concerns about it — was first reported by the New York Times, which also reported that then-White House Counsel Donald McGahn had concerns about Kushner’s clearance.
“That was conveyed to the media at the time, and new stories, if accurate, do not change what was affirmed at the time,” he added.House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff said in a statement late Thursday that his panel, as well as the House Oversight Committee, will continue in their investigation of the White House’s security clearance process.
In the first year of the administration, Kushner held an interim security clearance that allowed him to view both top-secret and sensitive compartmented information, which is classified intelligence related to sensitive sources. With that designation, he has been able to attend classified briefings, get access to the president’s daily intelligence report and issue requests for information to the intelligence community.
That meant that Kushner was effectively barred from seeing information gleaned from human spies or from the government’s vast signals intelligence apparatus. It’s that kind of intelligence that forms the basis of the president’s daily intelligence briefing and that is customarily given to senior policymakers and Cabinet officials.
Nobody cares.
ashtonbirdie
Vito Corleone would have been SO Proud!!
K.
Deplorable!
ashtonbirdie Such a breathless propaganda piece -- who slow walked security clearance in the first place and for what political purpose?
At least he's not a zar
How many more clues do his followers need that he never has America or our security as his top priority? It is and will always be, Trumpland first.
ashtonbirdie So?
Come on. He is a disgrace as president and as a human being. Nothing new here. That he is still in power just shows how broken your shi* society and system is.
The anti Trumper’s are so infatuated with Trump’s immense power and control over their thinking that they have an inability to reason. Any news, even unsubstantiated reports spewed from the New York Times, are taken as gospel. Pity. Where is the apology for the Russian hoax?
ashtonbirdie So what is the difference between his son in law vs Obama’s Muslim Brother Hood showing up at the White House?
Not a good day today for the President! Caught lying about the security clearance and one of Cohen’s many revelations proved true. Fordham University said they had in fact received a letter forbidding them from releasing his grades!
ashtonbirdie The biggest mistake trump ever made was letting one of his kids marry a scummy jew with a scummy jew family. But I guess those are the type of sacrifices you have to make if you want to have access to the real 🇮🇱movers and shakers🇮🇱 in NYC finance, huh?
ashtonbirdie The president is going to be shot in the head - look at the hands! LOOK AT THE HANDS!
Renegade that disrespects our security protocol and is a security threat. dscc SenateGOP your condoning the erosion of our nations security. Nepotism is always a serious breech issue with high level information.
Where were you partisan hacks masquerading as a news organization when Ben Rhodes had his clearance rammed through by Barack?
And which foreign states and oligarchs have Kushner's number?
Not only will donald jr. cause another invest. That kushner guy is NOT-N-THE-CLEAR!!
Isn’t this old news?
shaunking This is so bad. He should NOT have clearance any more than Ivanka should be doing whatever the hell she is doing in the name os US citizens.
shaunking He’s President. He gets to do that. Everyone else in the White House are what we call “subordinate” to the Commander in Chief. It’s true, really.
shaunking Two in the stink (Guy in the background)
shaunking Another thing that needs to be codified after trump
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Fictional essays now, lmao
stetayen
Crooked! Criminal!
Trump revelations: always stunning, never surprising.
Add this to the list of 200+ things that would land a Dem in trouble but the GOP will ignore. One thing will be certain after this Trump era is over, the GOP has completely blown their credibility. I’m starting to think Trump really does want to tank that party.
Jared works for Trump, not the United States!
Nepotism at all costs! Good for democracy, no?
WeThePeople are more scared of the DemocRAT party... evil to core. Sadly they have propaganda media for their megaphone. EnemyOfThePeople
Orange Jumpsuit Jared and Daddy dearest and cellmate .Don Dont Drop the Soap Trump.
does Kerry still hold secret clearance? I'd be very concerned if he did. He's spent plenty of time whispering in Iran regime officials and spies ears on how to deceive the US government and fight sanctions
Lots of TDS in this thread.
Hmmmmm
This is the President's perogative. Not news. How many times did Obama do this? You don't know because you didn’t bother to report it.
Pathetic!
Boo hoo, who the hell cares?
A total disregard for our safety. ♠️
So what!
Nothing illegal about it
Old news haters DonaldJTrumpJr Hate Alert
We could save time and energy if we just have every headline read- Trump is a criminal.
Any other American definitely wouldn’t get the clearance or job and likely would’ve prosecuted.
Bad reporting. Tell why he shouldn't have clearence? What did he do? John Kelly is a coward for not saying more.
Needs someone there who can't be bought by the sneaky DEMS or the media..good choice..
They'll deny everything. Their strategy is simple, just say you had no idea what was going on and you're in the clear. Why can't people realize this?
John Kelly needs to be subpoenaed.
This makes Ivanka a liar.
senatemajldr GOPLeader LindseyGraham RepMarkMeadows Jim_Jordan I am telling you - there is so much evidence against Trump now that we can't see or think straight. It is now entirely in your court. What do they have on you?
It’s ok to override the concerns of subordinates. Leaders do that on occasion.
That’s really not a huge deal.
Will the Party Of Law And Order notice? Nah.
Trump imperils the security of the nation at every turn.
Who elected KROOKED KUSHNER Unqualified unelected heiress how embarrassing
I don't think liberals understand that nobody wants Kushner out of the WH more than the far-right.
Sought ? Oh my. 😆😅
You’re falling for trumps traps again. Qushner. Every.damn.time.
And?...
WAPO says what?
Another nothingburger. The Washington Post is very scared of something...the anti-Trump articles are always there but they are in absolute overdrive today. What are you scared of? Could your boss Bezos be in some big trouble or you just scared of plain old media collusion
Yes! Fire Kushner!
Trump is corrupt. And is destroying the country.
Why can no one. Not even people from the intelligence community tell him no? I just don’t understand this.
Crime family
Nepotism
How does he get by with this?
So what?
We already knew this months ago.
POTUS has committed crimes in addition to this Kusher crap...
Avalanche of lies
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