Another spy in the White House?

by Original Quill Sat Jan 26, 2019 5:12 pm

Something particularly weird is going on in the White House. People are being given special access to secret materials who have failed or not even tried to get clearance. Among them, Jerrod Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, has failed the normal procedure process, and yet the denial was overruled by a special White House operative.

Who is allowing this? Apparently there is someone in the White House who is verrrrry friendly to friends in Russia. His name is Carl Kline. He came over as a political appointee from the Defense Department, and given the power to overrule the FBI and CIA who normally pass on clearances. Mr. Kline has overruled no less than 30-rejects for clearances by the FBI and CIA, whereas in the past there have been only 3.

Now the FBI, who has counter-espionage responsibilities, is investigating Mr. Kline, on the chance that he may be creating a White House spy network. Trump, in his effort to appease Russians and middle eastereners in order to cultivate loans for his businesses, is being very generous in his appointments…many with no, or poor records, and amenable to foreign influence. Mr. Kushner is one such clearance reject, because of his need for cash for his Manhattan projects.

Here is Mr. Kushner’s story:

KOS wrote:Kushner's security clearance was rejected by security specialists—until they were overruled
Jan 24, 2019 6:08pm PST by Kerry Eleveld, Daily Kos Staff

Two top White House security specialists initially rejected Jared Kushner's application for top secret clearance due to fears that he was vulnerable to foreign influence, reports NBC News, but the specialists were overruled by their superior. Carl Kline—a career Pentagon employee installed by Team Trump as director of the personnel security office in the Executive Office of the President—ultimately overturned an “unprecedented” number of rejected security clearances, writes NBC.

Kushner actually sought to get a higher security clearance than the White House could grant so he would be privy to the government's most highly guarded information, known as "sensitive compartmented information," or SCI. So after Kline approved Kushner's top secret clearance, he kicked the application over to the CIA for even higher SCI clearance.

The CIA not only rejected the request, two officials circled back with the White House to question how Kushner even obtained a top secret clearance to begin with. Such a designation gives him access to information that could cause "exceptionally grave damage" to nationally security if it were leaked.

To this day, Kushner reportedly does not hold SCI clearance, but as pr*sident Donald Trump can override that determination and make any information available to Kushner at will. Kushner reportedly had regular access to Trump’s highly classified Presidential Daily Brief during the first year of Trump’s presidency.

Expect to hear more about this horror show in the months to come as Rep. Elijah Cummings wields the power of the Oversight Committee to uncover how Kushner and other Trump officials managed to get their security clearances.

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/24/1829312/-Kushner-s-security-clearance-was-rejected-by-security-specialists-until-they-were-overruled