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Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump are both Senior Advisers to President Trump at White House, but why Jared Kushner is now Security downgraded?
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
President Trump, his First daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner. Both of them are Senior Advisers to President Donald Trump at the White House |
Jared Kushner was chief executive officer of the real-estate holding and development company Kushner Companies, and of Observer Media, publisher of the New York Observer. He is the co-founder and part owner of Cadre, an online real-estate investment platform.
During the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, Kushner helped develop and run Trump's digital media strategy. On January 9, 2017, Kushner was named as a senior White House advisor. He consequently resigned as CEO of Kushner Companies, and as publisher of the Observer.
Kushner has said he had four meetings with Russians during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition, and says that none of those Russian contacts were improper. He works in the White House based on an interim security clearance, having yet to pass a comprehensive background investigation.
His wife, Ivanka Trump, led th US Delegation to the closing ceremony of 2018 Olympic Winter
n Pyeangchong, South Korea as Senior Adviser and first daughter of President Donald Trump
But today what happens to Jared Kushner when he is downgraded on Security Clearance?
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VietPress USA NewsJared Kushner's Security Clearance Has Been Downgraded: Reports
Jared Kushner's Security Clearance Has Been Downgraded: Reports |
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House adviser, has had his security clearance downgraded, Politico reports.
He has been downgraded from SCI (sensitive compartmented information) access to Secret level, according to the publication.
All other White House aides working on high-level interim clearances also had their access downgraded, according to a memo reportedly sent to staffers on Friday. Earlier that same day, Trump said he would leave it up to his chief of staff, John Kelly, to decide what access Kushner should have.
“General Kelly respects Jared a lot and General Kelly will make that call,” Trump said at a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the time.
Kushner no longer receives the President’s Daily Brief, a top-secret roundup of global issues compiled by intelligence officials. His access to the highly classified intelligence briefing has been cut off in the past few weeks, sources told Reuters.
Kushner is reportedly accepting the decision and “will not ask for special permission” from the president, according to CNN.
Kusher has the vague title of senior adviser. Throughout his career at the White House, he has been assigned a wide-ranging portfolio on an array of highly sensitive issues ― solving the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, keeping the U.S.-Mexico relationship afloat, and heading up diplomacy with China, for example.
“This action will definitely impact Kushner’s ability to cure the world of all ills but not necessarily prevent him from doing aspects of his job,” Mark Zaid, a lawyer who specializes in national security law told HuffPost in an email. One of the most significant effects of Kushner’s clearance downgrade is no longer having access to the President’s Daily Brief, according to Zaid.
Government officials who perform the type of high-level diplomacy Kushner is tasked with doing typically get access to highly sensitive raw data about the players involved in the negotiations. Without the highest-level security clearance, Kushner will have to get a “reduced and more limited version” of those background briefings, said Brad Moss, also a national security lawyer.
“It really undermines his ability to do the work he’s supposed to be doing and makes him into more of a figurehead,” Moss said.
Kushner will also lose access to the National Security Agency’s intercepted communications, Ned Price, a former White House and CIA official, wrote on Twitter.
“Whether or not he could’ve been successful before, he no longer can be an effective Middle East mediator,” Price wrote.
The government officials who typically hold Secret clearances are in charge of the “nuts and bolts” of running the national security apparatus, Moss said. They do things like submit paperwork so that the CIA can get resources and equipment to a particular area and make sure that policymakers have the relevant information to give a briefing.
“A great deal of work, however, can likely occur at the Secret level, but it will be interesting to see how strictly people ensure he is not present for certain meetings, calls or document review,” Zaid wrote.
Kushner’s colleagues have an incentive to block off Kushner’s access to highly classified information. If they aren’t careful, they could lose their own clearances — or even face criminal charges, said Moss.
Ultimately, Kushner’s ability to do his job will depend on how strictly people around him restrict his access to sensitive meetings, calls or documents, Zaid wrote.
Questions of security clearance for White House staff members were raised after the resignation of staff secretary Rob Porter, who was accused by his two ex-wives of mental, emotional and physical abuse. Top officials, including Kelly, allegedly knew of the complaints of abuse against Porter but still gave him temporary security clearance.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to answer questions regarding Kushner’s security clearance during a press briefing earlier Tuesday. Last week, Sanders said Kushner would continue the work he has been doing whether or not he has full security clearance.
This post has been updated with more details about Kushner’s clearance and job.
- This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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