Posted on 07/25/2019 8:36:58 AM PDT by bitt
Two career White House security officials have testified in a closed door session with the House Oversight Committee that no political pressure was asserted on their office in determining security clearances, according to a GOP staff memo obtained by Hill.TV.
The testimony could deal a blow to Democratic assertions that President Trump and the White House counsel might have used undue influence on the process to win clearances for his son-in-law Jared Kushner and his daughter Ivanka Trump.
The fracas over security clearances erupted in April 2019 when career staffer Tricia Newbold testified to the House Oversight Committee that her then supervisor Carl Kline overruled several of her security clearance determinations because of political influence.
Newbold specifically alleged that at least two senior government officials were given high-level security clearances despite disqualifying information. Newbold also expressed concern over new policies that Kline put into place surrounding the security clearance process. Newbold’s testimony received wall to wall news coverage and appeared to validate long held suspicions and reporting that the White House security clearance process had run amok under Trump.
But the new testimony contradicts Newbold.
Career White House security official Crede Bailey testified to Oversight, according to the GOP memo, that he at no point felt pressure from anyone at the White House to determine a security clearance one way or the other.
Bailey further told the committee that as far as he knows Trump has never ordered a security clearance be issued to any specific individual. He also defended Kline’s conduct while in office, expressing the “utmost confidence” in his judgement.
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Interesting that the Rats would make a stink on this when according to Aldrich just about NO ONE in the BJ Clinton White House could pass a security clearance and the FBI was told to issue them anyway.
No one cares
She is a dwarf and one of her claims is that her boss put files in the upper drawers of filing cabinets so that she couldn’t reach them!
TRUE FACT!
Sometimes truth is more unbelievable than fiction!
Another Rat DUD.
Last winter, I complained to one of my sons that my wife was using up the left-over cedar shingles as easy kindling. He replied, "Put them on a high shelf where she can't reach them."
Worked like a charm. Of course, we'd used that remedy on him when he was a tyke.
It may have worked like a charm, but hardly worth a congressional investigation!
The president is the final say on what is classified and what isn’t, and who is cleared and who isn’t.
How exactly can he “interfere”?
Still we ask....How did Valerie Jarrett ever pass a security check?
Or Huma
Or Brennen
My understanding is that Newbolds role was to flag applications for further review. Not to issue a ruling.
Or Huma
Or Brennen***
And the 1/2 doz or so other Islamic extremists in Obama's cabinet.
Democrats assume Republicans especially Trump will act like they do.
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