), in a letter to the White House on Friday, urged “full and immediate compliance” with outstanding requests the panel had made related to security clearances for much of the past two years. But there was widespread concern in the White House about Kushner’s lack of a permanent clearance. The White House security clearance process has been a major focus for Oversight Committee Democrats over the past two years. When the White House ignored the requests, however, Gowdy refused Cummings’s pleas to subpoena the information. But the White House has pushed back on the Oversight request, arguing that authority over the security clearance application process pales in comparison to the president’s.

Source: Washington Post March 01, 2019 17:07 UTC