White House Security Process ‘Broken’
The nation’s top intelligence officials and national security experts warned yesterday that the White House security clearance process — which allowed a former aide accused of domestic assault to handle classified information — is “broken” and poses a national security threat.
“The process is broken,” Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told lawmakers at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing yesterday. “It needs to be reformed.”
The warnings came as FBI Director Christopher Wray testified under oath that the White House was given a security assessment of former White House aide Rob Porter nearly a year ago, and again in July and November — contradicting claims by White House officials that they were unaware of abuse allegations by Porter’s ex-wives until last week.
Coats went on to say that in the case of White House officials with interim clearance — a category that reportedly includes dozens of White House staffers including senior aides and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — “access has to be limited in terms of the kind of information they can be in a position to receive or not receive.” (Read more from “White House Security Process ‘Broken'” HERE)
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