>>9465634 No anon. This was 2018. It was reinstated on the recommendation of Karl Cline in May 2018. Is he Jewish anybody know?

Sean Illing:

How concerned are you, and how concerned should the public be, that Kushner has operated for over a year with a temporary clearance despite having all these glaring issues?

Noah Bookbinder:

I’m very concerned. I think the public should be very concerned. We’ve now seen reports that countries like China and the United Arab Emirates and Israel are attempting to get to Kushner and to use compromising information to leverage him to their advantage. We have no idea if this has already happened.

We’re now learning that his companies are getting loans from financial institutions whose executives he met with at the White House. We can’t say for sure if there was wrongdoing there, but it certainly looks bad. And it suggests that he’s not being careful about who he’s meeting with and how he should separate the various interests he has in order to avoid ethical conflicts.

"“I don’t know how it would make any sense to let him continue in his current position at the White House under these circumstances”"

Sean Illing

Have you ever seen an administration handle security clearances like this?

Noah Bookbinder

No. I can’t say that there’s never been an issue where people have been on a temporary clearance for a long time, but the strong sense that I get, including from people who have worked in administrations before on clearance issues, is that this is very different from the norm, and to have large numbers of people at very high levels without getting fully cleared for a long period of time is not the way things are supposed to work. I can tell you that people who work on these kinds of issue are very disturbed by what we’re seeing.

Sean Illing

Can Kushner continue to do his job now that his clearance has been downgraded?

Noah Bookbinder

He’s still in the job and he still has some clearance, although we don’t think he should have any clearance at all until he’s fully cleared by the FBI. But here’s the thing: He still knows all the stuff that he’s seen for the last year.

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/1/17066666/kushner-security-clearance-downgraded-trump