NATIONAL SECURITY IN PERIL - DOZENS OF WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS CANNOT PASS SECURITY CLEARANCE

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WHAT GOOD DOES IT DO TO SPEND A TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR ON DEFENSE IF
WE HAVE SPIES LOOKING AT TOP SECRET FILES IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
i remember when having a server at home panicked the republican party - now
anything goes.

By Josh Dawsey, Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett February 8 at 8:09 PM Email the author

Dozens of White House employees are awaiting permanent security clearances and have been working for months with temporary approvals to handle sensitive information while the FBI continues to probe their backgrounds, according to U.S. officials.

People familiar with the security-clearance process said one of those White House officials with an interim approval is Jared Kushner — the president’s son-in-law and one of his most influential advisers.

Good-government advocates have long been critical of the security-clearance process. The U.S. Government Accountability Office last month added the system to its “high risk” list of federal areas in need of reform, noting that executive branch agencies were “unable to investigate and process personnel security clearances in a timely manner, contributing to a significant backlog of background investigations.”

That backlog, the GAO said, totaled more than 700,000 cases as of September 2017. The GAO noted that it raised similar concerns more than a decade earlier

Security-clearance investigations aim to determine whether individuals pose a risk of revealing sensitive government information, based on a variety of factors, including their loyalty to the country, potential foreign influences in their lives or problems of a sexual, criminal, financial or psychological nature.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...72e2047c935_story.html?utm_term=.81d01b65c300

 

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Just following Obama's lead I guess.

NBC News explains:

The report captured data from 200,000 applications for secret or top secret clearance by defense contractors over the past three years, many of which were not fully adjudicated until 2017. It found that 486 applicants had their clearances denied or revoked. Of those applicants, 165 had slipped through the initial round of vetting and been allowed access to sensitive information…Felony charges were the cause for revoking 63 clearances, [drug use resulted in 66 revoked clearances], and evidence of foreign influence or foreign preference was found in 56 applications.

In 151 of the cases, applicants were granted an initial security clearance that was later revoked when it was discovered the applicant withheld information. In one example, a person given interim secret clearance in 2015 was discovered in 2017 to have been found guilty of raping a child prior to applying for the clearance.

 

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