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Rep. Quigley agrees, tells

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:37:06 +0000

On Kusher, Rep. Quigley agrees, tells CNN there are "additional concerns" that are classified, meanwhile White House & Oversight Chairman Gowdy decline to comment:

[....] A spokeswoman for House oversight committee Chairman Trey Gowdy declined comment on the letter Wednesday.

The White House declined to offer comment on Wednesday about Democrats' requests to look into Kushner's security clearance.

"I will have to get back to you on that," spokeswoman Lindsay Walters told reporters aboard Air Force One.

In his interview with CNN, Quigley indicated there were additional concerns about Kushner's security clearance, referencing "a whole series of activities that I can't get into at this point in time, but they raise concerns about his judgment and his ability to keep our nation's secrets." When pressed by Wolf Blitzer, Quigley said, "I can't get into details, because some of those things were also discussed in classified settings."[...]

#TeamRussia (executive branch

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 12:21:00 +0000

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#TeamRussia (executive branch) - who knew Russian ties would be the CV enhancer par excellence for 2016? #RedIsTheNewOrange

Why Kushner has clearance

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 10:27:04 +0000

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Why Kushner has clearance still?

Just further evidence to me

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:11:44 +0000

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Just further evidence to me what we have seen reported since early on, that many in "deep state" have reason to be deeply disturbed about the Trump presidency.

CIA director Mike Pompeo spends 3 hours a day commuting to White House to deliver intel briefings @ Raw Story, June 19

President Donald Trump likes to meet daily with his favored Cabinet members and other top officials, which keeps some of them away from their other job duties for hours at a time.

Senior aides told Politico that Trump preferred to meet face to face with his Cabinet secretaries because he distrusted the bureaucrats who run the federal government as disloyal agents of a “deep state” conspiracy against his presidency [....]

CIA director Mike Pompeo spends three house a day to drive from Langley, Virginia, to the White Hose to personally deliver the daily national security briefing.

He’s there so much that the White House has set up a temporary workspace in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next door to the director of national intelligence.

Sources told Politico that Pompeo has griped privately about the near-daily inconvenience, but a CIA spokesperson said those presidential meetings were “important.” [....]