Senators Want Info On White House Security Clearance Process

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Allegra Kirkland | February 27, 2018 1:22 pm

he Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday issued a bipartisan request to White House Counsel Don McGahn and FBI Director Chris Wray for more information on how the Trump administration is handling the process for requesting security clearances.

The letter from Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) comes after reports that some 100 White House staffers, including Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, were working on interim clearances as of November 2017.

“If true, this raises significant concerns that ineligible individuals, who hold positions of public trust, may have access to sensitive or classified information,” the letter reads.

The senators request information, by March 13, on the total number of those working on interim clearances, what sensitive or classified information they have access to, and the exact circumstances surrounding the clearance for fired White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter, among other topics ...

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/senate-judiciary-committee-wants-answers-trump-administration-security-clearances

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1. Grassley got his headline.

Blumenthal will try to follow up -- Grassley will kill it.

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2. Significant concerns, Sen. Grassley?

Why, whatever do you mean? Nothing seems to have been the province of your concern for the last 14 months. Or was it that mean Sen. Blumenthal? Show us on the doll which body part Blumenthal put in a vise to make you sign that letter.