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PPD title for Trump got me laughing. Good opinion piece from Daily Beast.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-deep-state-takes-out-the-white-houses-dark-clown-prince?ref=home
Applicants are required to spell out in great detail the specifics of foreign travel and overseas contacts. Investigators need to know where youve made your money and to whom you have debts. I did it in my early twenties when my life was relatively uncomplicated, and it was still a pain in the ass. Its not easy, and its not supposed to be. Its even harder when youre a corrupt, entitled snake who repeatedly lies about your finances to federal investigators and serves as a living, breathing poster child for privileged venality. Its even harder when youve rather clumsily attempted to use both your familial relationship and proximity to the president of the United States to save your familys failing real-estate empire.
All of which helps explain Jared Kushners very bad day on Tuesday. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a man who has compromised himself and his supposed values to accommodate and indulge President Trumphausens various whims, impulses, urges, feuds, and paranoid episodes, finally drew the line and busted Kushners security clearance down from TS/SCI to Walmart Greeter Background Check (Provisional). Hear that? That was Americas intelligence community, down to the last GS-7, breathing a loud sigh of relief.
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It wasnt just that Kushner omitted tens of millions of dollars of investments from his SF-86 and was forced to revise again and again and again, or that his listing of foreign contacts and engagements was glaringly insufficient. Its that he lied and omitted information in a way that was painfully obvious to the FBI and government officials examining his qualifications for the most elevated intelligence clearances. Then, the whispers in foreign capitals started; Kushner, they whispered, is for sale. American intelligence was listening.
Until today, Jared Kushner was one of a handful of recipients of the Presidents Daily Brief, a product that compiles the crown jewels of the American intelligence communitys input and analysis. He was exposed to source and methods, high-grade analytical product, and the darkest secrets we have gleaned from the most sensitive sources. Although President Postliterate Bestwords has his PDB presented in graphic-novel form or performed by costumed dancers, Jared was apparently an aggressive consumer of intelligence, ordering up briefings and information outside even his broad purview. What he knows after a year in this position makes him the juiciest intelligence target in the world.
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(7,508 posts)Leighbythesea
(92 posts)Wonder what happens if he can't find funds.