Trump pressured White House officials to grant Ivanka security clearance: report

President Trump pressured his former chief of staff John Kelly and former White House counsel Donald McGahn to grant his daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump a security clearance over their recommendations, according to a new report.

CNN reported Tuesday citing three people familiar with the matter that the president’s decision to intervene in his daughter’s security clearance process "rankled" White House officials.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CNN, "We don't comment on security clearances."

"We cannot respond to every anonymous source," she added to the network when asked for comment.

The report comes days after The New York Times reported that Trump intervened to secure a top-secret security clearance for his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, Ivanka's husband.

– Developing

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ouse-officials-to-grant-ivanka-trump-security

 

I have no idea if Trump pushed for this or not.

However my question is;

Why wouldn't they be permitted to receive top secret clearance?

Are not top advisors requireD to to top secret security clearances, in order to be a more effective advisor?

BUT...

A spokesman for Kushner's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, told NBC News that in 2018 White House and officials responsible for security clearances said "that Mr. Kushner's security clearance was handled in the regular process with no pressure from anyone."

 

White House Security Clearances: Fact vs. Fiction - ClearanceJobs


The recent media focus on security clearances in the Trump Administration has resulted in many questions from ClearanceJobs readers and the general public regarding how security clearance decisions are made inside the White House.

The 24-hour news cycle rushed to fill that knowledge gap with an abundance of commentators, analysts, and other talking heads – many of whom have little idea about that on which they speak.

Unfortunately, the dearth of information publicly available about White House security clearances has helped to facilitate a great many conspiracy theories. It has also allowed the uninformed to become quotable “authorities” on the White House security clearance process merely because there is no one to contradict them with facts.

Let’s take a moment to fact-check some actual statements about White House security clearances asserted on cable news:

Talking Head Claim # 1: Political appointees in the White House are responsible for making security clearance adjudicative decisions.

This is decidedly fiction. Security clearance decisions within the Executive Office of the President (EOP) – which includes the White House Office, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, National Security Council, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Council on Environmental Quality – are made by career officials in the EOP Office of Security. As career employees, EOP security officials transcend administrations and are supposed to be apolitical. For those readers familiar with Washington, D.C., the small, obscure EOP Security office is located in the red brick New Executive Office Building just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House complex.

In theory, the president could unilaterally overrule career security officials and decide to grant a security clearance to anyone he chooses. In practice, however, there is no known precedent of that happening and I suspect most presidents would be loath to do it because of the inevitable public relations ramifications.

Talking Head Claim # 2: The Secret Service conducts security clearance background investigations for White House staff members and presidential appointees.

This is also fiction. While the Secret Service is statutorily responsible for providing physical security at the White House and other Presidential facilities, those who work for the president undergo background investigations by a different agency – the FBI.

The FBI’s Special Inquiries Squad is a Washington D.C.-based unit tasked with conducting these investigations. Upon completing their work, agents write investigative reports which are then transmitted to EOP Security (see above) for review and adjudication.

The only exception to this rule of which I am aware is for Department of Defense (DoD) employees and contractors who support the EOP. Those individuals – who are involved in everything from logistics to food service to flying Air Force One – undergo background investigations by DoD along with special suitability screening for presidential support duties. The White House Military Office also runs its own suitability screening process for certain individuals contracted directly by that office.

Talking Head Claim # 3: White House staffers who are denied a clearance are escorted off the White House grounds with little explanation of the reason and no opportunity to challenge it.

This is actually somewhat accurate. Although the administrative due process provisions of Executive Order 12968 apply to the Executive Office of the President, the practical reality is that political appointees have no job protections and serve at the pleasure of the president. That means that a White House staffer with adverse background issues portending a security clearance denial may be simply removed from his or her position without affording the individual any opportunity for a final decision on the merits of the case or an opportunity to challenge that decision. Technically, the lack of administrative due process means that the individual is not considered to have been denied a security clearance, but rather to have been removed on suitability grounds.

On the other hand, EOP career staffers – the folks who, for example, clean the White House, keep supplies stocked, and answer the switchboard – are afforded full appeal rights under Executive Order 12968 in the event of a denied security clearance. That includes a Statement of Reasons, an opportunity for a personal appearance, and even an appeal to a high-level panel of EOP officials. An EOP official tells me that they’ve had to use this process only a “handful of times” in recent years.

Fundamentally, the White House operates its security clearance process similarly to the rest of the government except that political appointees are actually subject to harsher application of the rules than career officials due to their lack of opportunity to challenge adverse decisions and the strict suitability standards they must meet. The FBI, as a law enforcement agency, typically conducts far more thorough and competent background investigations than its counterpart at most other federal agencies, the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB). And, adjudicative decisions are the product of career officials insulated from outside influence by civil service protections (although, as I have recently warned, these officials have their own political biases, and I am concerned about what appears to be an animosity against the current administration by some in EOP Security).

That may be a far different narrative than certain media outlets are telling these days. But it is hard to argue with the facts.

This article is intended as general information only and should not be construed as legal advice. Consult an attorney regarding your specific situation.
https://news.clearancejobs.com/2018/04/22/white-house-security-clearances-fact-vs-fiction/

 

As I have said before there are two glaring "whys" here.

One is why did the FBI and especially the CIA essentially say Jared and Ivanka were too much of a risk to National Security to be granted a security clearance by normal procedures?

And why did Trump, Ivanka and Kushner through his attorney lie about it? Why do they always lie?

Also take a moment to get a good laugh out of the PR hacks quoting Kushner's lawyer Abbe Lowell.

Here's what a spokesman for Lowell said. "In 2018, White House and security clearance officials affirmed that Mr. Kushner's security clearance was handled in the regular process with no pressure from anyone. That was conveyed to the media at the time, and new stories, if accurate, do not change what was affirmed at the time."

And that is Lowell throwing Kushner and the White House under the bus saying they fucking lied to him.

 

Well, fraud, tell us, is it Lowll saying the security clearances were handled without pressure from anyone that triggers you, or that it was a Trump/Kushner clearance?

Wait.
Nevermind. Shooter can answer his own question.

Cause ..... trump

 

Mar-a-Lago member’s policy pitch called Trump a ‘king’ — and the president forwarded it to his cabinet

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/ma...alled-trump-king-president-forwarded-cabinet/

 

SO?

 

Oh hell, I see it now....for the rest of the story:

I see why the leftists are so upset about this, the FBI and the CIA.... knowing that both agencies are anti-Trump.

 

Now seriously don't you laugh when the PR hacks try to claim that the FBI and CIA which are headed by people Trump appointed are anti-Trump? That has to be the only explanation for them not wanting to give Kushner and Ivanka security clearances. It has to be even after two fucking years of Trump taking over every government agency we have they all have to be anti Trump. It could not possibly be that by all the standards that have existed before Trump and his family took over the White House Jared and Ivanka are considered threats to our national security.

Fuck I do laugh at what a fucking brainwashed parrot fool to even pretend you believe that.

 

Well fraud, why don't you tell us why Jared and Ivanka are of concern to the FBI and CIA?

cmon, old poop, tell us more stories.

 

Simple - if they are up for a position that requires a security clearance, a background investigation is warranted; and I believe both have had ties and business dealings with foreign governments, including Russia.

 

And what is being strongly suggested is that apparently Jared and Ivanka were rejected for separate reasons. It would be common that if a husband and wife both applied for security clearances if one of them had problems it would affect both security clearances. But in this case it appears Jared was rejected due to his repeated failures to reveal foreign contacts especially with Russians and Ivanka was rejected for dealings in the Trump organization which includes suspected Russian money laundering.

But whatever the reasons it looks like we might actually find out. Because they have lots of enemies working inside the White House.

White House Source Leaks Ivanka/Jared Clearance Docs to House Dems: Report

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ivank...cs-leaked-to-house-dems-by-white-house-source

 

I don't know if any of you have ever seen The Blob but it sure reminds me of the sleaze factor engulfing Trump. The fucking sleaze is serious and everywhere.

Trump partied at Mar-A-Lago with founder of Florida spa busted for human trafficking

*Trump and his supporters should probably take notice and fear anytime they see something in the Miami Herald because they are serious as a heart attack, have really good reporters and once they latch onto a story they don't let go. The reason Epstein, the men accused of fucking the under age girls he provided, and the total corruption on the part of Trump's Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta who covered up for Epstein are in the news right now is because the Miami Herald just wouldn't let it go And now that's another part of the Blob.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/tr...founder-florida-spa-busted-human-trafficking/

 

This comes as more news comes out that Trump/Kushner are still trying to sell our nuclear secrets to Saudi Arabia and suspicion that Kushner shared US intelligence reports with MbS about dissidents in Saudi Arabia.

Jared Kushner ‘will eventually be exposed as an insatiably greedy Benedict Arnold’: Harvard Law professor

*And it looks like they have a whistleblower inside the White House.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/ja...greedy-benedict-arnold-harvard-law-professor/

 

Starting with the fraud's assertion that Trump is trying to sell nuclear secrets to the Saudi's, lets remember that the Saudi's started their nuclear power program even before the Obama administration.
The Obama administration played along.
So, following the fraud's assertion, Obama was bent on selling nuclear secrets to the Saudi's, Trump is just carrying on the plan started almost two decades ago.