How big a screw-up is Jared Kushner? Background check head has 'never seen that level of mistakes'

by Laura Clawson

Daily Kos Staff

Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 at 7:10:32am PDT

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 24: White House Senior Advisor and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner reads a statment in front of West Wing of the White House after testifying behind closed doors to the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election at the White House July 24, 2017 in Washington, DC. In a statement released before the meeting, Kushner said he met with people who represented or may have represented the Russian government four times. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The director of the National Background Investigations Bureau testified at a House hearing on Wednesday, and Democrats were interested in the enormous number of “errors and omissions” in Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s security clearance questionnaire:

Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois asked Phalen, "can you recall if there has ever been an applicant having to submit four addenda detailing over 100 errors and omissions being able to maintain their security clearance once those errors and omission have been identified?"

Phalen said he has not seen "the breadth" of all applications "but I have never seen that level of mistakes."

Never seen that level of mistakes. Hey, we can’t say whether or not other people who made that many mistakes would keep his security clearance because nobody makes that many mistakes.

Did Jared really think he could hide all that stuff, or is he just that incompetent? Well, incompetence is a given: if he was trying to hide it, he didn’t do a very good job, and tried to hide so much stuff that, once discovered, it was going to look almost cartoonish. You screwed up how many times?

Definitely this is the guy to bring peace to the Middle East. Such a deft touch!