UPDATE: House panel votes to subpoena former White House official over security clearances

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post



A House panel voted Tuesday to subpoena a former White House official accused of overturning denials for security clearances after a whistleblower complained that the Trump administration had put the nation's most guarded secrets in jeopardy.

The Oversight and Reform Committee voted, 22-15, along party lines, to force Carl Kline, the former White House personnel security director, to answer questions as part of its ongoing investigation into the security clearance process.

The move represents one of the committee's first compulsory measure aimed at the administration and follows whistleblower Tricia Newbold's allegation that Trump's White House has behaved recklessly with national security.

Newbold, a nearly two-decade veteran of the security clearance process who still works in the White House, told the panel in late March that Kline, then her direct manager, overruled multiple clearance denials and then retaliated against her when she objected. Newbold also said she has counted more than 25 security clearance denials that had been approved since 2018 despite red flags about applicants' foreign contacts, conflicts of interest, past criminality, drug use or other misconduct.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/house-panel-votes-to-subpoena-former-white-house-official-over-security-clearances/2019/04/02/5f498ba2-5561-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html

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Original full title: House panel votes to subpoena former White House official who allegedly overturned security-clearance denials for Trump officials

Original article -

By Washington Post Staff
April 2 at 2:40 PM

The House Oversight and Reform Committee voted Tuesday to subpoena Carl Kline, who served as personnel security director at the White House during the first two years of the administration.

Tricia Newbold, a White House whistleblower, alleged that Kline, then her direct manager, overruled her clearance denials and then retaliated against her when she objected. Newbold told lawmakers that more than two dozen denials for security clearances have been overturned during the Trump administration.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/04/02/house-panel-votes-to-subpoena-former-white-house-official-who-allegedly-overturned-security-clearance-denials-for-trump-officials/?utm_term.9855a191164c

[llmart]

1. Let the games begin!

Or rather, let the tweetstorm begin. You know it's going to.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Expect the "close the southern border" talk to ratchet up.

[llmart]

3. Of course!

He may even have to bring out the ole' "caravans of illegals are coming" meme.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

4. Why is this an issue,

Because Barr had no intention on really releasing it and the rest of the repubs knew that already and don't care. Let see if the Judicial branch can actually do their jobs, i'm not holding my breath.

[leftieNanner]

6. This subpoena has nothing to do with the Mueller report

It refers to the security clearance issue in the White House. As many as 25 individuals who were initially denied clearance for valid reasons were overruled by the administration. Klein is being required to give testimony in congress to explain this.

[Sunlei]

5. Some of those given security clearances were undocumented Trump family employees

People who worked for years for Trump family, Trump family KNEW they were undocumented.

Driver of Trump children & Trump campaign Now sitting in ICE prisons https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/29/politics/trump-family-driver-ice/index.html

Undocumented former Trump workers ask Congress for protection

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/29/politics/trump-golf-clubs-undocumented-workers-congress/index.html

[iluvtennis]

7. So glad the committee decided to proceed with the subpoena - yay!

[PSPS]

8. "along party lines" so we still have a strong russian/GOP presence in the house.