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Top White House Official Under Fire Over Denial of Security Clearance
Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 10, 2017 | Adam Kredo

Posted on 01/10/2017 6:41:40 AM PST by Cheerio

Lawmakers and congressional insiders continue to raise questions about a senior Obama administration official and proponent of its Iran diplomacy following revelations he was denied interim security clearance before being given a senior role in the White House, according to conversations with multiple sources.

The Washington Free Beacon first disclosed last week that Ben Rhodes, a White House deputy national security adviser who handled the administration’s efforts to mislead the public about the terms of the Iran nuclear agreement, is being probed by Congress following disclosures the FBI may have denied him top-level security clearances.

Lawmakers told the Free Beacon that the Obama administration has been obstructing formal efforts to obtain information about why Rhodes was initially denied FBI clearance and how he ultimately received top-secret clearances.

The latest disclosures have cast a cloud over the Obama administration’s diplomacy with Iran just weeks before the president and his senior officials vacate their West Wing offices ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: benrhodes; bho44; bhomiddleeast; iran; iraniannukes; obamasecurity; securityclearance; whitehouse
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There must be a law or two that was broken here!?!




1 posted on 01/10/2017 6:41:40 AM PST by Cheerio
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To: Cheerio

Could Obama have got a security clearance?


2 posted on 01/10/2017 6:43:54 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Cheerio

When the goal of the POTUS is to destroy America, its likely his staff won’t be cleared to “protect and defend”.


3 posted on 01/10/2017 6:45:10 AM PST by G Larry (Pretending Podesta's e-mail are "The American Election System" is nonsense.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes...from iran.


4 posted on 01/10/2017 6:46:24 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Cheerio

Let’s be honest here, in a sane world obama would not be eligible for a security clearance. practically nobody in his 2009 cabinet or WH would be eligible.


5 posted on 01/10/2017 6:47:20 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Cheerio

IIRC Ben Rhodes is the official who helped construct the story of the video being the cause of the ‘impromptu demonstration’ and attack @ Benghazi.


6 posted on 01/10/2017 6:48:56 AM PST by MNGal
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To: pgkdan

If anything verifies that we are not in a sane world, it’s exactly what you’ve pointed out. There is no way Obama could have passed the background investigation required for a nuclear clearance as I experienced it in the 70s. No way on God’s green earth...


7 posted on 01/10/2017 6:53:21 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Cheerio

Isn’t he the brother of the head of CBS news?


8 posted on 01/10/2017 6:54:55 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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Could Obama have got a security clearance?

His "inconsistencies" with his past should have denied him..

9 posted on 01/10/2017 6:57:13 AM PST by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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To: Unam Sanctam

That’s him.


10 posted on 01/10/2017 6:57:33 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: cardinal4
Could Obama have got a security clearance?

I'm not sure if this is still true, but when I was a security specialist 25 years ago, the President was not required to have a clearance.

11 posted on 01/10/2017 7:02:46 AM PST by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: Cheerio
Ben Rhoades. Where have I seen that name before ?

OH yeah.


12 posted on 01/10/2017 7:11:07 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Cheerio

I don’t think there is a single member of the 0bama regime, including the poser himself, that could legitimately pass a background check for a security clearance.


13 posted on 01/10/2017 7:22:50 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: Cheerio

This non-vetting bs started with the Terrorist in Chief himself. It will end Jan. 20.


14 posted on 01/10/2017 7:25:59 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Cheerio

Denied a Security Clearance?!? He must have had some real dirt in his past. A security clearance use to be difficult to get, but the requirements were gutted during the Clinton years, (rumor has it because the vast majority of his team would have been rejected otherwise.) Now days very little can actually cause you to be rejected, short of an extensive criminal history, things that, in the past, would result in a quick rejection like drug use, mental illness, sexual deviancy and financial problems have been all but removed as factors except in the most extreme cases.


15 posted on 01/10/2017 7:28:11 AM PST by apillar
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To: UCANSEE2

Note... for our Inaugural Ball


16 posted on 01/10/2017 7:46:21 AM PST by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: BenLurkin

Back at the beginning of Obama’s destruction of America, a former top official said that there is no way in Hell that the White House Commie could ever get a top security clearance,,,


17 posted on 01/10/2017 8:12:51 AM PST by Stayfree (LIBERALISM & STUPIDITY ARE BOTH INCURABLE MENTAL DISEASES OFTEN FOUND TOGETHER!)
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Now days very little can actually cause you to be rejected, short of an extensive criminal history, things that, in the past, would result in a quick rejection like drug use, mental illness, sexual deviancy and financial problems have been all but removed as factors except in the most extreme cases.

Those factors are resume-enhancement (hell, resume-REQUIREMENTS) for the Oboma administration in today's world!

18 posted on 01/10/2017 8:16:10 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: cardinal4

His association will Bill Ayers would have eliminated him.


19 posted on 01/10/2017 8:46:31 AM PST by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: MNGal
IIRC Ben Rhodes is the official who helped construct the story of the video being the cause of the ‘impromptu demonstration’ and attack @ Benghazi.

Ben Rhodes IS a fiction author.
Everything changed that day. But the way it changed Ben Rhodes’s life is still unique, and perhaps not strictly believable, even as fiction. He was in the second year of the M.F.A. program at N.Y.U., writing short stories about losers in garden apartments and imagining that soon he would be published in literary magazines, acquire an agent and produce a novel by the time he turned 26

Ben Rhodes’s Fiction Behind the “Iran Deal”


20 posted on 01/10/2017 4:16:16 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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