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White House whistleblower says Trump administration overturned 25 security clearance denials

 

The whistleblower, Tricia Newbold, told Congress that security clearance applications for White House officials "were not always adjudicated in the best interest of national security."

 

The Trump administration overturned 25 security clearance denials issued by career government employees, a White House whistleblower told Congress.

 

House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said in a letter released Monday that the whistleblower, Tricia Newbold — a security specialist in the White House — had told members of his committee in an interview that that the Trump administration’s decisions to overturn clearance denials issued by her office could jeopardize national security and that coming forward marked her “last hope” to “bring the integrity back into” her office.

 

“She has informed the Committee that during the Trump Administration, she and other career officials adjudicated denials of dozens of applications for security clearances that were later overturned,” Cummings wrote in a letter to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-whistleblower-says-trump-administration-overturned-25-security-clearance-n989511