A White House whistleblower has said the Trump administration overruled security experts to give questionable security clearances to more than two dozen people, including the president’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner. She said President Donald Trump’s former White House personnel security director, Carl Kline, personally overruled the career officials’ judgments in the cases of two senior officials. In his letter to the White House, Cummings referred to three unnamed “senior White House officials” whose security clearance cases are addressed in some detail by Newbold. The new round of subpoenas signals increased pressure from Democrats on the Republican Trump White House. AdvertisingNewbold refused, and the third official ultimately left the White House, the Democrats’ memo said.

Source: Indian Express April 02, 2019 05:14 UTC