What nepotism ...No double-secret probation yet, but the questions about temporary security clearances became even more important as the indictments loom.
Kushner will still get enough business intelligence for potential emoluments but perhaps national security will be less compromised even as he probably still gets to read the PDBs (Presidential Daily Briefing). Princeling-in-law seems to have been manipulated by at least four nations because of his inexperience.
On a related front there’s no official counter-insurgency for Russian cyber-crime yet.
Presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has had his security clearance downgraded — a move that will prevent him from viewing many of the sensitive documents to which he once had unfettered access.
Kushner is not alone. All White House aides working on the highest-level interim clearances — at the Top Secret/SCI-level — were informed in a memo sent Friday that their clearances would be downgraded to the Secret level, according to three people with knowledge of the situation.
The SCI acronym stands for sensitive compartmentalized information, a category of information that comes from sensitive intelligence sources and must be walled off.
an interesting sidebar is Jarvanka’s PR guy Josh Raffel leaving with some speculation about his role in Biglygate.
A new report sheds new light on the woes of Jared Kushner, who is in danger of being a senior White House official without access to classified information said to be central to his job.
Kushner, who has been operating with a temporary clearance, has come under the harsh glare of the spotlight since White House Chief of Staff John Kelly declared that all such staffers would no longer be granted access to top-secret information after Friday, February 23. And it appears Kushner’s situation is not approaching resolution.
In a February 9 phone call to White House counsel Don McGahn, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Kushner’s business ties warrant further investigation, according to The Washington Post. Rosenstein had reportedly been trying to reach Kelly, but settled for McGahn once Kelly proved unavailable. (Prior to the Post’s new revelation, an attorney for Kushner downplayed the significance of such delays, saying it was “not uncommon for this process to take this long in a new administration.”)
Kelly announced the change in protocol after the disastrous exit of his deputy, Rob Porter. Porter has been accused of domestic violence by multiple ex-partners.
Despite not having a permanent security clearance, Porter had been tasked with vetting highly sensitive information on its way to President Donald Trump.