If one waits for a security clearance to be totally completed, There would be no one in the White House to work for Trump except for Obama’s people. The people had to pass an initial National Agency Check, and get an interim clearance based upon passing that, before they began to work. Even though the FBI may have completed their investigation, the clearance still has to go to the final adjudicator’s for granting of a clearance. It is that final decision that was not been apparently made at the time the ‘brew ha ha’ happened. Two months before I retired last fall, the last person I hired got her final TS clearance granted. She had been working for me for nearly two years on an interim TS based upon her initial National Agency and background check.
It is also interesting that one of Porter’s ex-wives endorsed him as qualified to work in the White House, doing his administrative job there. Rush was talking about that at the beginning of his show today.
I understand that there was nothing unusual about a WH having staff members that were in place for long intervals before clearances had been completed. My contention is that the Trump presidency situation is unique, with just about everybody in the swamp and in the media out to destroy this presidency. The leaks and the issues of questionable allegiance have been unrelenting. What I’m saying is that in this unique situation it’s not good that there was no insistence that those security checks be done by now. Then, the allegations could’ve been answered. It shouldn’t have come as a surprise that the haters would pounce on someone not having security clearance when the opportunity came up.