BREAKING: Jared Kushner's Security Clearance Has Been Downgraded,

Townhall.com ^ | February 27, 2018 | Katie Pavlich

[Kaslin]

Senior advisor to President Donald Trump, Jared Kusher -- who is also the president's son-in-law -- has officially lost the ability to review sensitive classified information after failing to obtain a permanent security clearance. 

Speculation surrounding whether Kushner's permanent security clearance, in addition to temporary clearances held by dozens of White House Staffers, would come through has been swirling for weeks. Last week President Trump said it was up to Chief of Staff John Kelly to determine whether his son-in-law would continue to review classified information. 

“That’ll be up to General Kelly. General Kelly respects Jared a lot and General Kelly will make that call. I won’t make that call,” Trump said last week during a press conference with the Australian Prime Minister at the White House.  

Previously, Kushner had access to President Trump's daily intelligence briefings and reports. Moving forward, he will not. Ivanka Trump, married to Kusher, has also been working at the White House on a temporary clearance.

More on the background from POLITICO: 

The White House’s handling of clearances came under scrutiny after reports that Kelly had been aware that former staff secretary Rob Porter, who was accused by his two ex-wives of verbal and physical abuse, did not have a full security clearance in part because of a previous protective order granted during one of his divorces.

The scandal prompted Kelly to crack down on staffers working without full clearance, more than a year into the Trump administration.

In a five-page document released last week, Kelly ordered a series of initiatives aimed at bolstering protocols.

“The American people deserve a White House staff that meets the highest standards and that has been carefully vetted — especially those who work closely with the president or handle sensitive national security information,” Kelly said in the memo. “We should — and in the future, must — do better.”

The White House argues Kushner will continue to fulfill an important role at the White House, regardless of his access level to classified information.

[Kaslin]

The rest of the title is: Along With Other White House Staffers

[stylin19a]

But Susan Rice still has hers...am I in bizzaro world ?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-real-reason-mcmaster-let-susan-rice-keep-her-security-clearance/article/2009158

[DouglasKC]

Yeah, just wasn’t him. It was a policy change. Of course the press won’t be honest about it.

[Skywise]

And Hillary Clinton

[Red Steel]

I’m still wondering how people in the Obama Admin. got their security clearances?

Oh yeah, CNN and the press didn’t care, and security clearances were only suggestions.

[CMailBag]

Could this ‘slow-walking’ of these security clearances by the FBI be the insurance policy they were talking about??

[poinq]

These background checks are done by the swamp. They have a way of making sure that conservatives don’t get to work for the government. If you are liberal your check goes through quickly. And that violation for pot smoking is just a small thing, everyone does it. But if you have a hunting license they have to cavity check your grandmother before they give you a clearance.

[Gay State Conservative]

I guess he must have transmitted classified info over an unsecure private server...or something.

[Alberta's Child]

Maybe now he can take Ivanka and the kids and go back to New York City.

[TigersEye]

Thanks to FBI Shadow Government foot dragging.

[faithhopecharity]

I’ve been worried about him (and greenblatt) for a long time. Can’t know for sure on any sec clearances, errors can occur in both directions. But Hopefully this ends all the mucking around kissing the terrorists’ posteriors in the Middle East This alone will be a super-sized plus! And if DJT still wishes to employ these men, he can assign them to something constructive like, say, wall building, ending “gun controls,” Draining the washDC Swwmp of all its alligators, and/ or cutting wasteful spending

[poinq]

Trump should make the clearance people give them a real reason for not giving a clearance, and if it does not make sense he should order the clearance. The President can give clearances to whoever he wishes. The swamp can stall and deny a clearance for any reason, unless the president overrides them.

[Hostage]

This is old news.

Security clearances are granted on a need to know basis. General Kelly will grant such clearances only on that basis.

This much ado about nothing.

[wastedyears]

He never should have been given that in the first place. Same with his daughter.

[ealgeone]

Wonder how many congresscritters could actually pass the background check?

[Sa-teef]

"Maybe now he can take Ivanka and the kids and go back to New York City."

We can always hope?

I'm sure they were a help to the Donald during the campaign but they keep stepping in it around the White House.

[Myrddin]

DISA is way behind on doing periodic re-investigations for people who currently hold clearances. Normally, you get an interim Secret in about a month. It can take 4 to 6 months to go "final". TS often takes a year AFTER the Secret goes final. I'm not really surprised to hear the policy is reverting to standard procedure. Perhaps that will light a fire under DISA and get them the resources they need to catch up.

[Alberta's Child]

Under no circumstances should the President of the United States override any laws or protocols to give out security clearances to family members like Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

Heck -- the whole thing became a joke when President Trump named this 36 year-old neophyte with no experience at any level of government as a "senior advisor" in the White House.

[Gay State Conservative]

"Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you..."

[stylin19a]

now that is just plain scary...