Lawmakers demand answers on Rhodes' Security clearance
by Gabby Morrongiello
| January 05, 2017 05:44 PM
Hacked emails belonging to Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta first revealed last summer that Rhodes had failed to pass an FBI background check ahead of Obama's inauguration in 2008.
"For your information, out of the approximately 187 people who we have moved through the process, Benjamin was the only person declined interim status," transition officials had written in an email to Podesta.
Nevertheless, an unnamed government official told the Free Beacon that Rhodes was ultimately granted the relevant security clearances he needed to serve on Obama's national security team.
A spokeswoman for the FBI declined to comment.
Rhodes sec clearance pic
Pablo Martinez Monsivais
White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes has become the subject of a congressional probe into whether FBI officials declined to grant him an interim security clearance for use during President Obama's transition. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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