• Jared Kushner receives permanent security clearance
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jared-kushner-receives-permanent-security-clearance-ending-uncertainty-over-his-status/2018/05/23/b4a57fae-5eb6-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html This is a man who has had to update his financial disclosure form 40 times and has added over a hundred foreign contacts that were not initially disclosed. He is also suspected to be a major player in the family conspiracy revolving around Trump. Let's also remember that shortly after a Qatar-based deal to bail out his disastrous purchase of 666 5th Avenue failed, the Trump administration threw Qatar into the trash, and now the US seems to be okay with Qatar again as a Canadian company with Qatari government connections is in talks to bail out 666 5th Avenue. So that's great. Also he was recently interviewed by Mueller's team. I wonder how many lies Mueller caught him telling.
Sure, why not?
Senator Murphy from the first article pretty much hit the nail on the head. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday said in a "normal political world," Kushner would no longer have his job. "If this were a normal political world, Jared Kushner wouldn't have a job by the end of today," he said during a Wednesday interview, "and at the very least, he should absolutely have his security clearance revoked." Even having a single foreign contact (or contact with a foreign national) can severely jeopardize a security clearance if you can't 100% guarantee they aren't a spy or otherwise affiliated with foreign intelligence in any way. So you can see how having to do that for over 100 foreign contacts is crazy.
Another angle, taken by a USA Today opinion columnist a few weeks back, is that Jared is an example of extreme privilege, because if someone on food stamps made mistakes like this, they'd starve to death. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/10/jared-kushner-mistakes-cost-him-nothing-poor-lose-food-stamps-column/595853002/ It also just so happens that Republicans want to make food stamps and other welfare programs even harder to get into and stay on, which is off-topic for this thread but also puts the privilege on display in greater perspective. These fuckers think themselves nobility in all but title and act like it.
Nobody in their circles gives a fuck about the job security of a pleb, because a pleb in their eyes is just a bigger ant. Ants don't have any say in the circles of the rich man, because they don't deserve it according to them.
With a security clearance you're looking at felony arrests and prison time for those paperwork mistakes though. It's pretty hard to prosecute because you have to prove the person falsified their paperwork with malicious intent (perjury). What boggles my mind is that this: He submitted another addendum in mid-May 2017 detailing more than 100 calls or meetings with representatives of more than 20 countries. Then, in June, Kushner filed a third addendum acknowledging a meeting he had in June 2016 at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer offering damaging information on Hillary Clinton. Is something that would have disqualified pretty much anyone applying for a security clearance under Adjudicative Guideline B, section G and H. I imagine (this is my opinion) that some strings were pulled and it was somehow mitigated under condition B and condition E. But (again, my opinion) this would have been an instant DQ for any average Joe gunning for a security clearance.
Wonder how much that cost.
There's no fucking way he should have gotten a clearance of any kind with that kind of background, let alone a permanent one.
I'm sure the one pulling the strings was daddy Don and it was mitigated under condition The President Demands It So Do It Or Get Fired Bitch. 'Cause that's how President Nepotism rolls.
There was a report from a reputable source that someone posted about somewhere on here IIRC, saying that there was a corruption issue within the FBI? Someone back me up on that, only noticed it in passing. Anyways, would not be surprised if this was a part of that corruption issue.
At minimum the New York office was decidedly pro-Trump, in what's supposed to be an apolitical service, and was so biased it was nicknamed Trumplandia. Active FBI agents have also likely been involved in the True Pundit scandal, which was the behind-the-scenes filthy business that forced James Comey to reveal that Hillary's emails were back under investigation two weeks before the election, which noticeably swung the election towards Trump. Having said that I doubt they were allowed to be the final arbiters of Kushner's clearance. And if they were that's just one more thing on a very long list.
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