The White House security question seems to be heating up.

[Arkansas Granny]

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Lisa Desjardins
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@LisaDNews
BREAKING: House Oversight now also getting ready to issue subpoenas.

For oversight it's about WH security clearances. (Including Jared Kushner, we believe.)

Whistleblower told them 25 officials got clearance despite serious concerns, recommendations against.

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9:16 AM - Apr 1, 2019

[PSPS]

1. Here's the problem

President Donald Trump discussed classified information during an Oval Office meeting on May 10, 2017 with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, providing sufficient details that could be used by the Russians to deduce the source of the information and the manner in which it was collected, according to current and former government officials.

Link to tweet

[lagomorph777]

2. We can't revoke the spymaster's clearance until 2020. We are in mortal danger until then.

[Totally Tunsie]

8. The "spymaster" doesn't hold a Security Clearance, so there's nothing to revoke,

which is what I find to be one of the big oddities of the presidency.

In tRump's case, it's another incident of "A fish rots from the head." HE is the security problem in the WH. HE is the danger.

[lagomorph777]

9. I was speaking metaphorically; his "clearance" derives from occupation of the office.

And Trump's head is Surströmming

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Here's a little more info:

WASHINGTON (AP) — A career official in the White House security office says dozens of people in President Donald Trump's administration were granted security clearances despite "disqualifying issues" in their backgrounds including concerns about foreign influence, drug use and criminal conduct.

Tricia Newbold, an 18-year government employee who oversees the issuance of clearances for some senior White House aides, says she compiled a list of at least 25 officials who were initially denied security clearances last year because of their backgrounds. But she says senior Trump aides overturned those decisions, moves that she said weren't made "in the best interest of national security."

Newbold's allegations were detailed in a letter and memo released Monday by Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform committee. That panel has been investigating security clearances issued to senior officials including Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and former White House aide Rob Porter.

The letter comes about a month after The New York Times reported that Trump ordered officials to grant Kushner a clearance over the objections of national security officials and after Newbold spoke out to NBC News and other news outlets about her concerns. It also sets the stage for another fight between the White House and the Democrat-controlled House. Cummings said he will move this week to issue his first subpoena in the probe.

https://cbs12.com/news/nation-world/official-trump-team-overruled-25-security-clearance-denials

[JHB]

7. But...

[lindysalsagal]

4. Awesome! And, what about the Russians in the oval office?

Start questioning people and shake down the entire trump mob. Find out what's going on in this admin.

[gratuitous]

5. The Post is on this

But most of the rest of the national media seem determined to overlook the whole unpleasantness.

[lagomorph777]

6. Well, time on this story might cut into time for drug commercials.

And we can't have that!

I mean, who cares about a spy ring in the FUCKING OVAL OFFICE!

[H2O Man]

10. Recommended.

I don't think that this comes as a surprise to any one. And that's a measure of how low Trump has set the bar.

[Takket]

11. And these fuckers want to put a citizenship question on the census