Insanely dubious consigliere Jared Kushner has lost his top-secret intelligence clearance according to Politico. He’s not had it entirely stripped away but he has been downgraded.
Kushner is not alone. All White House aides working on the highest-level interim clearances — at the Top Secret/SCI-level — were informed in a memo sent Friday that their clearances would be downgraded to the Secret level, according to three people with knowledge of the situation. [...]
The memo was not signed by chief of staff John Kelly, but it comes as the retired Marine general and other top White House aides are grappling with the fallout of a scandal involving former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, which revealed that dozens of White House aides had yet to receive permanent clearances but nonetheless had access to some of the country’s deepest secrets.
This comes after weeks and weeks of out loud wondering why Kushner, who has nothing but billions of dollars in conflicts of interest, was getting so much classified access. According to Politico, John Kelly, who was tasked with this decision by our white supremacist in chief, did not sign his name to the order—leaving open the possibility that John Kelly is hoping that this is enough to fool Donald Trump into believing that Hillary Clinton fired Kushner. This makes yet another in a long line of disgraced former White House aides who clearly had ill-advised access to our country’s most precious intelligence.
Unfortunately, Trump can still give Kushner a waiver, so we shall see where this goes.
Here’s some more:
I imagine everyone losing their security access ends up being an uglier version of this: