Ivanka Trump to get top security clearance and office, WH official says

[milestogo]

Source: CNN

Ivanka Trump will work out of an office in the West Wing and get a security clearance, a White House official told CNN Monday.

The official also confirmed Trump will receive government-provided communication devices, although she will not be a government employee.

The move places President Donald Trump's eldest daughter -- long one of his closest advisers -- at the center of his administration. Asked at a press briefing on Tuesday about the matter, White House press secretary Sean Spicer responded that Ivanka Trump would, by her own choice and at the advice of her attorney, follow rules prescribed for government employees despite being outside of government.

"Ivanka has taken on several measures to promote high standards of ethical conduct," Spicer said. "Even though she's not a federal employee, she'll follow the restrictions that would apply if she were. She's taken these steps with the advice of counsel and in consultation of the Office of Government Ethics."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/21/politics/ivanka-trump-west-wing/

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[NYC Liberal]

1. The same Ivanka that's buddies with Putin's girlfriend?

[Glimmer of Hope]

8. Oops.

https://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/60321.htm#b

One of these should apply to dear daughter, no?

7. Conditions that could raise a security concern and may be disqualifying include:

(a) contact with a foreign family member, business or professional associate, friend, or other person who is a citizen of or resident in a foreign country if that contact creates a heightened risk of foreign exploitation, inducement, manipulation, pressure, or coercion;

(b) connections to a foreign person, group, government, or country that create a potential conflict of interest between the individual's obligation to protect sensitive information or technology and the individual's desire to help a foreign person, group, or country by providing that information;

(c) counterintelligence information, that may be classified, indicates that the individual's access to protected information may involve unacceptable risk to national security;

(d) sharing living quarters with a person or persons, regardless of citizenship status, if that relationship creates a heightened risk of foreign inducement, manipulation, pressure, or coercion;

(e) a substantial business, financial, or property interest in a foreign country, or in any foreign-owned or foreign-operated business, which could subject the individual to heightened risk of foreign influence or exploitation;

(f) failure to report, when required, association with a foreign national;

(g) unauthorized association with a suspected or known agent, associate, or employee of a foreign intelligence service;

(h) indications that representatives or nationals from a foreign country are acting to increase the vulnerability of the individual to possible future exploitation, inducement, manipulation, pressure, or coercion;

(i) conduct, especially while traveling outside the U.S., which may make the individual vulnerable to exploitation, pressure, or coercion by a foreign person, group, government, or country.

[tanyev]

9. Hey, funny coinkydink--Rybolovlev's jet & yacht were in Dubrovnik the same time as Ivanka and Jared.

According to this poster on Daily Kos:

After reading several news reports about the Trump rally connections, I noticed Rybolovlev’s private jet was also in Dubrovnik, Croatia around the same time that Jarred Kushner and Ivanka Trump were there in August. So I started digging.


It turns out that not only was Dmitry Rybolovlev’s private jet in Dubrovnik from August 10-13, so was his private yacht. I’ve confirmed it to be in the Adriatic, moving towards Dubrovnik the night before with Dubrovnik being the destination on August 10th. I have the proof below.


A few days ago I requested information about Rybolovlev’s private yacht, “Anna” or “My Anna”, IMO: 1008994, from vesselfinder.com, which is one of several maritime tracking services, for the dates of August 10th-14th, 2016. I received a reply this morning. While I have not purchased the whole set of data, the first position and info of the ship was on the attached Excel file. See below.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/17/1644558/-Confirmed-Rybolovlev-s-Jet-Yacht-were-in-Dubrovnik-the-same-time-as-Ivanka-and-Jarred-Kushner

[mainstreetonce]

2. If she is not an employee

what can anyone do about it if she breaks the rules?

She should not have a security clearance.

[dalton99a]

3. Exactly.

[Thor_MN]

13. I don't care if she declines a salary (*45 claimed he was going to take one too)

If she is doing a job, she is an employee. Pay does not change that. There's the whole nepotism thing that the right freaked out about with Bobby Kennedy also.

[Sunlei]

21. She got a first floor prime office. Trump shoved kellyanne upstairs, he's done with her.

[tammywammy]

22. If she's not an employee why/how would she have a "need to know" any classified information? n/t

[Cracklin Charlie]

26. Clearances cost real money.

Taxpayer dollars.

Be a shame, and very embarrassing, if her clearance was not granted.

But, if she wants to set herself up for that, I won't try to stop her.

[Archae]

4. What I'd like to know...

What the hell is her job?

Keeping Daddy from having a breakdown?

[CountAllVotes]

5. Securing more Russian diamonds for her "jewelry"

Talk about big bucks, can't think of any bigger ones than diamonds!!!

[femmocrat]

6. I think she is there to keep him from self-destructing any further.

Bet she will be at his side constantly. Too bad about her own three kids. She has to babysit Daddy.

[mpcamb]

12. "What the hell is her job?"

Nothing that gives her a security clearance or a salary.
Get her sorry worthless ass out of the West Wing!

[Cracklin Charlie]

27. Human shield?

Just like always.

[procon]

7. Why doesn't she fall under the nepotism law?

Just because she isn't taking a paycheck doesn't mean she isn't benefiting in other ways that the taxpayers are paying for. She gets a posh office, presumably she has staff and supplies, as well as access to all govt services. If she traveling with Daddy Warbucks, then she's taking advantage of free trips with paid food and lodging, free staff, car and chauffeur... all provided by tax payers.

Not to mention how all that access and schmoozing might affect her brand and add to her wealth.Why do the Trumps get a free pass to rip off taxpayers?

[milestogo]

11. Exactly.

Imagine if Michelle Obama had gotten security clearance for being President Obama's wife. Republicans would have made a ruckus.

[mpcamb]

14. She does.

Why won't anyone enforce it?
(Remember? Republicans devised it for RFK.)
And if no one does, she NEEDS TO DIVEST herself from all FINANCIAL GAIN, while inhabiting the office.
These criminals and scofflaws belong in court.

[FakeNoose]

30. Ivanka is in charge of Daddy's cellphone

... and she's the only one who knows the new password.

Tweet-tweet!

[cstanleytech]

10. Well we warned the Trump supporters that Trump would end up siphoning

taxpayer money into his own and his families pockets.

[gilbert sullivan]

15. I suppose it's WAY too much to hope that this is something from the Onion...

FSM help us.

[japple]

16. She will probably be the new decorator-in-chief, because the first lady in absentia won't

be able advise the pResident. He chose those gold drapes that are always a backdrop in every picture.

[NewRedDawn]

17. Secretary of relaxation

take the edge off of daddy by giving him daily happy endings.

[svpadgham]

24. Thanks for that mental image

[Honeycombe8]

18. OMG. Incompetence abounds in the W.H. Intelligence briefings decisions by Ivanka? OMG.nt

[Sunlei]

19. Now she can get the freebies kidcare and dress the little models for pics with Grandpa.

Kind of weird looking the white house these past 60 days with gaggles of suits schooling around trump.

No one wants to bring their kids to work anymore.

[Solly Mack]

20. That should not be allowed.

There's no accountability in place for such a non-employee with that much power and that much classified information.

No.

[not fooled]

23. Turning the U.S.A. into a banana republic

one act of corruption and nepotism at at time.

[They_Live]

25. Um...no.

This is unacceptable.

[Demsrule86]

28. She will be vetted and I am not sure she can pass .

[EarthFirst]

29. Could you imagine if Clinton had created this post for Chelsea?

Holy hell, I don't think there would be enough unexploded heads left to even staff a committee hearing...

[Kimchijeon]

31. Exactly, they would scream bloody murder

And rightly so, because it's blatant nepotism and shouldn't be allowed!

Is she just installed to "manage" her demented Dad? Seriously what the shit!?

[Blue_Tires]

32. LOL

Link to tweet

[WinkyDink]

33. We need new words, for there are none extant to describe these brazen, shameless, and illegal acts.