Kelly and Kushner stuck at an impasse after Trump's punt on clearance

[turbinetree]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump’s decision to punt the issue of whether Jared Kushner can keep his access to sensitive government secrets without a full security clearance to his chief of staff, John Kelly, has put him in a tricky position, stuck between the rules on one side and the president’s family on the other.

Trump's ad hoc decision not to intervene in the clearance process on behalf of his son-in-law and senior adviser in effect left Kelly and Kushner in limbo, prolonging an uncomfortable situation that White House aides say is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.

Kelly does not plan to recommend to the president that he grant Kushner a waiver, but he is unlikely to resign if Trump ultimately decides to do so, according to a person familiar with his thinking.

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“If it starts preventing him from doing what he wants to do, he’ll figure out a workaround,” a senior administration official said of Kushner’s security clearance troubles. “All of this stuff is basically just cosmetic talk.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/26/kelly-kushner-trump-security-clearance-424295

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So being blackmailed or compromised is just "cosmetic talk"......................FUCK YOU

Your "team player" lied on his F86 Form....................end of story and should be denied anything near top secret or for that matter any clearance, and should band have a charge of lying being leveled against him and all that knew about his lying.......................end of story

What the fuck are the rules of law for .................toilet paper



November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.....................

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Too bad these arent Democrats, they would last all of ONE day without a clearance.

While presidents do have people in limbo with clearance sometime, what no president does is have clearly compromised, clearly treasonous people with clearance.

[Bleacher Creature]

2. I think Mueller should sort it out! NT

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Trump doesn't know how to lead. He only knows how to fire people. Lots of experience at that! . . nt

[hedda_foil]

5. He doesn't even fire people directly. He finds someone else to do it for him.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. True. That's how he fired Comey. . . . . nt

[poboy2]

4. The WH needs to keep being HAMMERED on this.

ALL those w/failed or provisional clearance MUST GO NOW.

THERE IS NO WORKAROUND.


GO

NOW


National Security is at stake.

[politicaljunkie41910]

7. Follow the Rules, General. Isn't that's what you'd tell your subordinates?

[magicarpet]

8. And these same Fascist traitors....

.... have the audacity to criticize and chastise Hillary Clinton.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. What qualifications does this guy have and how crazy is this:

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has complained more than once about the perceived encroachment on his turf by Kushner, who is responsible for Israeli-Palestinian issues but also deals, at times, with the U.S. relationship with Mexico and China, as well as by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. “We can’t have four secretaries of state,” Tillerson has said.