Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Donald Beyer (D-Va.) have written a letter calling on acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to revoke Jared Kushner’s security clearance in light of reports that a personnel director overrode recommendations that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law not be granted top-secret clearance. Kushner’s clearance was denied by two unnamed career White House security experts because of FBI concerns about foreign influence, NBC reported last week. Kushner, a senior White House adviser, was finally granted permanent security clearance in May 2018. Kline overrode recommendations against security clearances for 30 people in the White House, an unprecedented number of reversals, NBC reported. House officials have accused the Trump administration of causing “grave breaches of national security” by disregarding security protocols, according to a statement last week by committee chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.

Source: Huffington Post February 01, 2019 06:00 UTC