Trump official allegedly retaliated against security clearance whistleblower

[Borealis]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/trump-official-allegedly-retaliated-against-security-clearance-whistleblower

The woman who blew the whistle on alleged abuses in White House security clearance process says she faced humiliating forms of retaliation, according to Congressional documents.

A memo circulated to lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee by Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) details allegations that former White House personnel security director Carl
Kline retaliated by placing files out of reach of whistleblower Tricia Newbold, who suffers from dwarfism.

“As little as I am, I’m willing to fight and stand up for what I know is right,” Newbold is quoted as telling lawmakers. “They’ve always respected that about me.” Newbold alleged that
Trump appointees began to retaliate against her after she raised concerns about security clearances being granted after career staff rejected the applicants.

Cummings wrote in the memo that when Newbold told Kline she couldn’t reach the files, he allegedly replied, “I have people, they can get the files for me.” It took the White House two
months to lower the files, Newbold is cited as telling lawmakers.

Newbold, who has no prior disciplinary record after 18 years of work under Democratic and Republican administrations, received a two-week suspension without pay on Jan 30, 2019,
according to Cummings’ memo. The notice of suspension accused Newbold of refusing to “support new procedures your supervisor implemented” while criticizing her for “constant
defiance of authority.”

[doomkiwi]

How cartoonishly evil can you get? This is some "are we the baddies" shit, where any sane person would look at themselves and wonder if they were a good person.

[Jaguar]

Snitches get stitches, am I right?

[sir whoopsalot]

The stated reason for Newbold’s suspension was a “new policy” that Kline created in November 2018 to “scan documents in separate PDF files instead of a single PDF file when sending them to other agencies,” per the memo.
Trump officials allegedly cited an instance of Newbold’s PDF mishap as grounds for a “pattern of this type of defiant behavior.”

Fuck. Off.