Just hours after Politico reported that White House senior advisor and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner had been stripped of his top-level security clearance, the Washington Post dropped a bombshell report that purports to provide an unprecedented level of insight into why Kushner wasn't granted an exemption.
According to WaPo, officials in at least four countries have privately discussed how to manipulate Kushner by taking advantage of his "complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience." The story cited current and former US intelligence officials.
Kushner's family business, the Kushner Companies, was famously having money troubles tied to 666 Fifth Avenue, "the most expensive building ever purchased", in New York City at least. Though earlier today the Wall Street Journal reported that the family business was planning to buy out Vornado Realty's stake in the building.
The officials - who were not named or - were from China, the United Arab Emirates, Israel and Mexico.
White House officials, including National Security Advisor HR McMaster were reportedly uncomfortable about some of Kushner's contacts, and eventually worked out a system where any contacts he had with foreign officials were to be carefully monitored.
McMaster raised questions about some of Kushner's meetings, and why there weren't people with more foreign policy experience in the room with him.
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Washington Post - enough said
ReplyDeleteHe wasn't stripped of his clearance. His clearance was down graded die to his day to day operations with foreigners that could be a compromise. He has a secret clearance not a top secret. I turned in my top secret clearance because I didn't need one. I never handled TS. It costs the government a lot of money and time to process a TS clearance.
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