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Kushner, 30 others in Trump admin had rejected clearances overruled.

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Only the best. How compromised is this goddamn admin?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna962221?__twitter_impression=true

Jared Kushner's application for a top secret clearance was rejected by two career White House security specialists after an FBI background check raised concerns about potential foreign influence on him — but their supervisor overruled the recommendation and approved the clearance, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

The official, Carl Kline, is a former Pentagon employee who was installed as director of the personnel security office in the Executive Office of the President in May 2017. Kushner's was one of at least 30 cases in which Kline overruled career security experts and approved a top secret clearance for incoming Trump officials despite unfavorable information, the two sources said. They said the number of rejections that were overruled was unprecedented — it had happened only once in the three years preceding Kline's arrival.
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It's a very fortunate thing that the CIA rejected Kushner's request for an even higher level of security. Just imagine the profits Kushner could bring in for the Trump Crime Clan from exploiting that kind of sensitive data that he hasn't already turned into top secret leverage derived revenue.

Meh, I'm thinking maybe, just maybe whatever sensitive data he can't get with an upgraded security clearance from the CIA he can always get directly through the his daddy dictator in chief.
 
This was, I think, one of several major aspects that derive from the naïve philosophy of the populists who supported Trump, the narrower circle of people ranging from Manafort to the Commerce Secretary, and others who never placed a dime's worth of value on public service or any appreciation for the long hard road of progress since before WWII.

It is the naïve idea that we need change so badly that it must be radical -- utopian. It ignores the fact that the founders wanted divided government, and that the institutions forged through divided government were intended to endure. It finds a comfortable place next to the fiction and myth of a "Deep State."

Therefore, the entire system of security clearances, secrecy where secrecy protects national security, the institutions and perhaps even the military are to be handled as one might put jagged rocks into a box of Waterford crystal to "shake things up."

These people don't read. They don't pay attention to numbers and statistics -- as real businessmen (or government men) do. And they don't care who they hurt in balance with whatever good they intend.

I don't think they know what they intend. And that is why Trump -- who doesn't know what he intends, either -- is on a runaway mission of complete and utter whim.

If I had a son or daughter in the military right now, I'd try to get him/her to make an orderly change in careers. Trump has no real regard for others. I can see him off on some crusade, sacrificing human lives with abandon, just as he's perpetrating this "shutdown" with no regard to the people doing the daily work in the agencies, the regional offices, the outposts of BLM, Forest Service, Park Service, NOAA, Coast Guard, NASA -- the real list longer than I can summon from memory.
 
And we will eventually learn that Jared used his clearance to order surveillance on Kashoggi as a "suspected terrist," so that he could transfer all of his travel information to MBS--because MBS directly requested it.
 
HomerJS said:
Methinks Kline is getting a save the date call from James Clyburn
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Can't wait for those hearings. Fortunately, I'm retiring before my next PR which is every 5 years. I'd really have to restrain myself from making comments during my next one about what a joke a clearance apparently is to this current administration. There's got to be a law about overriding security professionals judgment.
Oh and by the way, the process is actually broken at this time. One of my guys has had to be recycled twice, meaning he's at 7 years. They are woefully behind.
 
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