DHS is also prioritizing these clearances over other clearances for other sectors, per Nielsen.
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German crosses, Swedish clearances, German crosses, German shots, Swedish clearances ...... You get the idea.
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I think some of these people have already lost their clearances, some people keep their clearances.
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So far, about 20 state election officials have received full security clearances while others have received interim clearances.
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Among the actions, Kelly says he reviewed security clearances of White House staff, reduced the overall number of clearances and "adjusted the level" of staffer's clearances to better fit with his vision of staffers' responsibilities.
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Of those, almost 2.9 million people have "secret" clearances and 1.4 million are classified in the"top secret" clearances.
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On security clearances: Coats told the AP the government's system for granting security clearances is "broken" and needs to be overhauled. Sen.
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A review of the security clearances at the White House by Mr. Kelly found that many officials were operating with interim clearances.
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About four million people, both government employees and contractors, hold security clearances, including 1.3 million with top secret clearances like Ms. Winner's.
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An unnamed former Obama administration official who worked on security clearances told Politico that clearances were usually not withheld over drug use alone.
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These people who haven't been granted permanent security clearances are given interim clearances, which means they still have full access to sensitive materials, right?
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The director also said sitting FBI officials might lose their security clearances, have their clearances reviewed or be subject to some other "adjudication" for the same matter.
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"The president is exploring the mechanisms to remove security clearances because they politicized, and in some cases monetized, their public service and security clearances," Ms. Sanders said.
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Interim security clearances exist to streamline the operation of federal agencies by allowing officials to continue serving the public as their full security clearances are being processed.
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In the February 16 memo, Kelly stated that White House officials who have been operating on interim clearances since last June would have their temporary clearances discontinued.
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The four appointees, who were working with temporary security clearances, are the latest administration officials to encounter issues amid increasing scrutiny of those trying to obtain permanent clearances.
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Security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked, and those who have already lost their security clearances may not be able to have them reinstated.
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Only 2023 of 150 state election officials have received permanent security clearances, officials revealed, though they said they would provide time-sensitive threat information to states regardless of clearances.
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Nearly 4.1 million people have security clearances, according to the most recent report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, including 1.3 million with top secret clearances.
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The White House issued a ban on new interim security clearances last fall but allowed current staffers with interim clearances to remain in their positions, Politico reported on Tuesday.
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A 290 report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence pegged the total at 2828,1003,2100 people for confidential and secret clearances and 21998,224,483 for top secret clearances.
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It was Kelly who mandated last week that officials who'd applied for security clearances before July, but haven't yet received permanent access, would be stripped of their interim clearances.
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A 2015 report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence pegged the total at 2,885,570 people for confidential and secret clearances and 1,363,483 for top secret clearances.
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Those clearances, CREW argued, must be examined to determine whether the president played a role in directing the clearances be granted despite the counsel of McGahn and top security personnel.
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Past administration officials keep their security clearances in part to offer guidance to their successors; keeping the clearances allows them to give up-to-the-minute advice to current officials.
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The Bureau is the principal government agency responsible for conducting background checks on those seeking security clearances as well as investigating those suspected of criminal conduct in connection with those clearances.
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Asks about security clearances for his kids -- or not?
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Trump is now publicly toying with going after other clearances, on Monday asking his followers on Twitter whether he should go after former CIA and FBI official Philip Mudd, who in a CNN debate criticized Trump for targeting security clearances and became angered when another commentator suggested he and others profit from their clearances.
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That could lead to that person being unable to get proper security clearances in the future, or the applicant might have to wait a long time for those clearances to be approved.
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"The use of funding prohibitions to deny or remove security clearances is just simply a political stunt and unnecessary, because security clearances can already be denied or revoked because criminal conduct," he said.
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"We have all the clearances from the government," he confirms.
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HANNITY: And they all deserve their clearances taken away, right?
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Activists said the clearances became less frequent but continued nonetheless.
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The president has wide latitude in designating people for clearances.
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Officials are granted security clearances for set periods of time.
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Regardless, the president has wide power to grant security clearances.
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The government recently eased environmental clearances for some industrial projects.
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And obviously to do all this research and get clearances.
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Removing security clearances has nothing to do with free speech.
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Trump's interest in revoking clearances followed a meeting with Sen.
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We've got to make sure folks have got appropriate clearances.
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We have got environment clearances and technology selection is over.
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Go deeper... Trump's blacklist: White House considers targeting security clearances
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I think some of these people already lost their clearances.
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Public servants with security clearances have access to classified information.
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That revelation prompted a new policy on temporary security clearances.
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A year ago, she oversaw eight people working on clearances.
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OPM officials said on Thursday one aim for NBIB is to reduce processing time for "top secret" clearances to 80 days from 170 days and for "secret" clearances to 40 days from 120 days.
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But they are saying, look, Trump is now threatening national security by talking about pulling Brennan&aposs clearances, by talking about pulling Susan Rice&aposs clearances because they won&apost be able to talk.
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There's also the security clearances saga: Axios reported Friday that the House Oversight Committee had been leaked documents detailing the timeline of Javanka obtaining their security clearances and who was involved in approving them.
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In February, the Office of Personnel Management changed its requirements for top-secret security clearances, mandating re-investigations into clearances every six years instead of every five to try and help reduce the backlog.
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It is common for clearances for new senior officials to be completed prior to the swearing in of a president, according to one outside lawyer familiar with security clearances who spokes with The Hill.
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Officials at risk of seeing their security clearances revoked expressed concern about Trump using his presidential authority to strike back at critics but said revoking their security clearances would have little impact on them.
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In a memo issued on Friday, Mr. Kelly said he would revoke top clearances for anyone whose background check had been pending since June 1 or earlier, and review such clearances every month thereafter.
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In a statement announcing his decision, Trump said he was considering rescinding the clearances of other top intelligence and law enforcement officials or preventing those who've already lost clearances from obtaining them in the future.
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The department has also been working to issue clearances to election officials so they can view sensitive cyber threat information, though some states have complained that the security clearances have not been issued quickly enough.
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Some of targeted officials appeared to no longer have security clearances.
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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have now received full security clearances.
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This is why, in some cities, clearances can exceed 100 percent.
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There are protocols in place for stripping people of their clearances.
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He's already got his clearances, knows the subject, man of integrity.
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Ivanka Trump and Kushner were issued permanent security clearances last year.
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"These clearances simply could not have happened without money," he said.
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Clinton or any of her senior aides lose their security clearances.
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An even smaller number of these individuals hold the highest clearances.
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"This has really nothing to do with security clearances," Price added.
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"It's not just about [secure facilities] and security clearances," said Lute.
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But security clearances are generally revoked only for wrongdoing, he said.
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House wants documents on McEntee's security clearances MORE, who also testified.
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Some of them said they no longer have security clearances, however.
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The matter of clearances has gained renewed attention after Porter's resignation.
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When both Kelly and McGahn refused, Trump granted the clearances himself.
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Have you ever seen an administration handle security clearances like this?
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"The president is exploring these mechanisms to remove security clearances because they've politicized and in some cases monetized their public service and their security clearances and making baseless accusations of improper contact with Russia or being influenced by Russia against the president is extremely inappropriate," Sanders said in the press conference, without elaborating on how they have politicized or monetized their clearances.
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The declaration also lays out that Swetnick holds a number of federal government clearances, including from the Treasury Department, and has held previous federal government clearances in the past, including from the State and Justice departments.
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Backlogs have led the federal government to issue interim clearances to individuals later discovered to be convicted rapists, murderers and pedophiles, according to the director of the agency responsible for overseeing temporary security clearances for the Pentagon.
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CNN reported on Friday that many top staffers at the White House, including President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, do not have full security clearances and are operating with interim clearances as their reviews continue.
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CHAFFETZ: By default, everybody should have every one of those clearances gone.
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They also certainly don&apost have a right to these security clearances.
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Those include improved clearances allowing it to scramble over the gnarliest terrain.
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BAKER: Yes, the question of the clearances, it is bigger than Brennan.
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An official wouldn't say if the nominees will get temporary security clearances.
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Limit access to certain highly classified information for individuals with interim clearances.
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Kushner and Ivanka Trump's clearances have drawn criticism from some House Democrats.
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In rare situations, Zaid said, individuals have had their clearances taken away.
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Trump suggested Friday he is likely to continue to revoke security clearances.
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" "Do people who have security clearances have a right to free speech?
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This investigation also requires the highest security clearances, further rarifying the field.
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Speaking of the president's legal team ... it's lacking security clearances, reports Bloomberg.
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The transaction is expected to close in 2Q18 after customary regulatory clearances.
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Like many Washington lawyers, Bennett has held security clearances throughout his career.
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Benjamin Pavard had 11 clearances, many when Croatia was looking very threatening.
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Elijah Cummings House wants documents on McEntee's security clearances MORE (D-Md.).
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House wants documents on McEntee's security clearances MORE, a decorated war veteran.
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"I've been very clear that we don't discuss security clearances," she said.
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Some proposed witnesses and consultants will require security checks and clearances too.
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Read NBC's story about White House officials who lacked permanent security clearances.
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Students in the program have to have certain military clearances, he said.
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Kelly changed the rules after saying too many staffers held temporary clearances.
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Instead, he's continued to relish the fight over clearances and his actions.
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Aside from the clearances, everybody was also preoccupied with his legal situations.
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All the clearances, all the paperwork, getting it to producers and artists.
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Sanders said that Trump was "exploring mechanisms" to remove the clearances because [the former officials] politicized and in some cases actually monetized their public service and their security clearances in making baseless accusations of improper contact with Russia.
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If the administration was smart, and I think they are, they would point out the fact that there is 4.1, 4.2 million people out there with security clearances, 1.3 or so of those million and top-secret clearances.
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Kelly later released a five-page memo listing a handful of changes to tighten up access to classified information, including limiting new interim clearances and cutting off certain clearances for those whose investigations have been pending since June.
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Trump has mostly unchecked authority to revoke security clearances as commander in chief, and there is a legitimate question as to whether former intelligence or law enforcement officials should get to keep security clearances after they depart government service.
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On Monday, CBS News reported that the transition team was looking into the possibility of seeking top-level security clearances for the Trump children, but Mr. Trump tweeted Wednesday that he was not seeking such security clearances for them.
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Though that is down from a high of 5.2 million in the 2013 fiscal year, Mr. Aftergood said that too many clearances make the system harder to keep secure and delay both new approvals and reviews of existing clearances.
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Kelly sought to limit access to classified information for aides with longstanding interim security clearances and several aides have since left the White House after it became clear their applications for a full security clearances would not be approved.
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The subpoena on security clearances comes after Newbold told the committee at the end of March that she had kept a list of 25 instances in which decisions not to grant security clearances were reversed by those above her.
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The White House office only determines eligibility for secret and top secret clearances.
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Ted, do you know how far back these type of clearances can go?
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"He told us that he made every decision about security clearances," said Rep.
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No-one bothers with securing clearances now, because it's so hard and expensive.
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President Donald Trump is considering pulling the clearances of former national security officials.
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The Brazilian data are better at recording clearances of large blocks of forest.
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These people are not in office anymore and they still have security clearances?
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More controversial is a series of clearances of temporary structures in the capital.
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The clearances are also sometimes required for them to work for government contractors.
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Bazari said their homecoming depended on security clearances and basic services being restored.
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The President doesn't typically weigh in on security clearances of any government official.
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But why do former directors retain their security clearances in the first place?
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She said the administration is looking into how their clearances can be revoked.
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They further accused the administration of concealing information from Congress about security clearances.
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The White House may decide the gesture of pulling clearances isn't worth it.
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What about the clearances of members of the judiciary who approve FISA warrants?
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He noted that the president does have the authority to unilaterally revoke clearances.
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Sanders did not provide a timetable for when the clearances might be revoked.
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The administrators were given emergency security clearances and told to sign nondisclosure agreements.
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It had established relationships in the federal government and the necessary security clearances.
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His mother's death he had commemorated in the magisterial sonnet cycle "Clearances" (1987).
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While awaiting clearances, the immigrant status of many recruits expired, rendering them ineligible.
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People with security clearances are not allowed to smoke marijuana, according to CNBC.
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Those staffers might receive extra scrutiny if they apply for security clearances again.
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It's not clear who currently makes decisions on clearances for White House hires.
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Word is more clearances could be stripped from others in the coming days.
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Unable to receive the appropriate clearances, the pilot returned the airplane to Miami.
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It was later revealed that neither Comey nor McCabe still have their clearances.
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Many of the clearances were by the heads of the tall Iceland players.
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Researchers on projects deemed classified are carefully vetted and must obtain security clearances.
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We followed military officials with security clearances as they drove home at night.
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Some Democrats are calling on the president to revoke Mr. Kushner's security clearances.
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In other circumstances, passengers without security clearances were specifically left off the manifests.
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They jail their opponents or in this case they steal their security clearances.
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LATEST WITH THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION -- BUT ALL THE COOL KIDS HAVE SECURITY CLEARANCES!
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As has always been our policy, we do not comment on security clearances.
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The ensuing outcry over security clearances, and how dozens of White House staffers were able to operate under interim clearances while their background checks dragged on, quickly came to focus on Jared Kushner, Trump's top adviser and son-in-law.
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Context for security clearances: All former CIA (and NSA / FBI / DNI) Directors hold a security clearance since they might need to be consulted on important matters and so they can review their former files Security clearances are a valuable commodity.
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He, among other top Trump administration officials, had their interim security clearances downgraded by White House chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE after it was revealed they had been able to access classified information for months under the temporary clearances.
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Mr. Kushner is one of dozens of White House officials operating under interim security clearances because of issues raised by the F.B.I. during their background checks, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the clearances.
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Although it is legally accurate that the President can award clearances to whomever he chooses, relying on that talking point when trying to explain why officials insisted on awarding security clearances -- against experts' objections -- is a game of high stakes dodgeball.
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Trump's son-in-law has had a broad portfolio and reportedly sought to keep his security clearances, leading to speculation about tensions between he and Kelly, who has come under fire for his handling of security clearances in the administration.
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The president looking to strip security clearances from top anti-Trump Obama intel officials.
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He&aposs also looking into the clearances of Comey, Clapper, Hayden, Rice, and McCabe.
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Do you have any plans to take any more clearances away any time soon?
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The agency processes security clearances, and information on 21.5 million government workers was stolen.
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A ton of the 4 to 5 million people who have clearances are contractors.
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ICAP said, separately, that it remained confident that the necessary clearances would be obtained.
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" Sanders added that their clearances effectively give "inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence.
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The White House now considering stripping the security clearances of six former intelligence officials.
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On Monday, Trump praised Dennard for accusing officials of profiting from their security clearances.
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By Buck SextonOpinion Contributor Can the president take away security clearances of former officials?
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This is not the first time Trump and Kushner's security clearances have been questioned.
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"There would definitely be support for a wholesale policy revoking their clearances," Penn added.
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Right now, more than 500,000 federal employees and government contractors are awaiting security clearances.
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Kushner was among dozens of Trump administration staffers who still lacked full security clearances.
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What he does now: The storied guitar-for-hire now has top security clearances.
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"There would definitely be support for a wholesale policy revoking their clearances," he added.
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"We don't comment on security clearances," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told NBC.
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Center backs Frederic Brillant and Steve Birnbaum rank first and second, respectively, in clearances.
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Why it matters: A partisan litmus test for security clearances is unnecessary and inappropriate.
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Japan is hustling on defense and making clearances (83 so far to Belgium's 28).
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She has been granted multiple security clearances in the past including Public Trust & Secret.
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Both allegedly obtained high-level clearances, despite recommendations from career security officials against it.
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Corner for Costa Rica after a long ball forces two clearances by Brazilian heads.
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Johnny Isakson, a Georgia Republican, said it was Trump's "prerogative" to pull security clearances.
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Mr. Kushner had spent the first year of the administration working under provisional clearances.
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Calligraphers Debra Brown and Becky Larimer do not have security clearances, per the data.
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It's also unclear why those staffers faced a delay in obtaining permanent security clearances.
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They are now working with interim clearances while their background checks are being processed.
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"I was never involved with the security" clearances for Mr. Kushner, the president said.
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In some cases during Wednesday's simulations, mock one-day clearances were granted to officials.
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Comey, the former FBI director, and McCabe, former FBI deputy director, have previously said they don't actually have security clearances, though, as Sanders indicated in the statement, Trump may try to prevent such individuals from being able to obtain clearances in the future.
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Washington (CNN)Six Democratic senators sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray asking for the names of all White House staff members with interim security clearances, as well as those with completed background checks who are unable to get full clearances.
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At the top of the list, Cummings wrote, are questions surrounding White House security clearances, particularly whether proper protocols were followed when top-secret clearances were granted to the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner and former national security advisor Michael Flynn.
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The security clearances are typically issued by the U.S. Department of Justice after FBI review.
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Their security clearances and are now obviously a clear and present danger to this country.
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Bergen: The landing teams -- they would need to have top secret clearances to be briefed?
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"The Committee respects the President's authority to grant security clearances," Cummings writes in the letter.
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"Agencies will not hesitate to revoke someone's security clearances when multiple infractions occur," he said.
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That is, until this year: there have already been 219 De Novo clearances in 212.
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But now, there's a whole slew of post-holiday, pre-New Years clearances out there.
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However, clearances can remain automatically "active" for several years after an official departs government service.
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Still, clearances can remain automatically "active" for several years after an official departs government service.
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MCULLOUGH: Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin -- INGRAHAM: Cheryl Mills -- you know do they have clearances still?
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The FDA is accusing Inova of marketing these products without the required clearances or approvals.
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We didn't do a great job of tracking direct connection between ShotSpotter and case clearances.
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Trump and his campaign have denied that they are seeking security clearances for his children.
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Staffers whose interim clearances have been pending since June would have them revoked on Friday.
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There's an even more practical reason to remove these clearances: they are not being utilized.
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AT&T's Chief Executive told investors he expects the planned acquisition to receive regulatory clearances.
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Several of the former officials have said that they already no longer have security clearances.
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Ivanka Trump said in mid-February that the president had no involvement in their clearances.
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NBC News: Senate Dem, Republican join effort to control how Trump grants, revokes security clearances.
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Officials also use their clearances to obtain high-paying consulting positions in the private sector.
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A dispute resolution process was set up, and HAGL agreed to stop further land clearances.
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For one, security clearances as we know them could become a thing of the past.
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Normally, the decision to approve or deny security clearances rests with the employing federal agency.
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Clinton's aides could still be punished, potentially costing them security clearances in a Clinton administration.
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Unprecedented times While Trump's threat to revoke security clearances is unprecedented, so are the times.
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The White House has also said that the review of security clearances wouldn't impact Kushner.
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Former intelligence agency leaders keep their clearances for practical reasons, including to advise their successors.
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Those with appropriate clearances can also view the memcons at the repositories where they're kept.
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But some of the former officials Sanders cited say they have already relinquished their clearances.
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That stood in contrast to aides of similar stature who remained only on interim clearances.
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The resolution of his clearances does not guarantee that Mr. Kushner faces no legal jeopardy.
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The national group is working with DHS to obtain clearances for top election administration officials.
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He lacked the security clearances one would expect of a top adviser on national security.
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The first step, he said, is to secure genuine environmental clearances, based on field studies.
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It took more than five months to get government clearances to begin operating another station.
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Kelly released a memo last month detailing changes to how security clearances would be handled.
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Those with appropriate clearances can also view the memorandums at the repositories where they're kept.
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McEntee appears to be the latest casualty of Kelly's enforcement of the security clearances process.
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Ivanka and Jared joined the administration in early 2017 and were first given interim security clearances.
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You don't really get 'bench clearances' and games taking three-and-a-half hours any more.
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Now, the Trump administration rightly is looking to remove security clearances from former high-ranking officials.
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I think there are valid questions about why senior officials get to keep their security clearances.
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Berteau said that even within the Department of Homeland Security there are issues transferring security clearances.
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Syrians must pass through many steps of security clearances before being admitted to the United States.
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Tepper received the Hart-Scott-Rodino anti-trust clearances on Wednesday, according to the FTC's website.
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"Allergan welcomes all investments in our company," spokeswoman Amy Rose said, when asked about the clearances.
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As of October of 2015, 4.3 million people have security clearances from the United States government.
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Kline's attorney also recommended that the panel look into security clearances issued under the Obama administration.
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Anybody who leaves a position of authority with responsibility for classified information should lose their clearances.
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And that is one action that the president is currently considering is yanking those security clearances.
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Security clearances are ostensibly hard to come by, as a number of Trump associates can attest.
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Kelly issued a memo to White House staff on Friday ordering tighter procedures for security clearances.
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" Sanders on Wednesday: "As has always been our policy, we do not comment on security clearances.
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Funny thing is, some of the people on the list don't even have security clearances anymore.
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It expects to get final regulatory clearances for the acquisition by the middle of the year.
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But on CNN … The practical effect of Brennan having his clearances stripped is little to nothing.
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Former administration officials typically keep their security clearances in order to provide advice to their successors.
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His security clearance was also downgraded after a review of security clearances held by top aides.
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Past administration officials keep security clearances in part to offer counsel and advice to their predecessors.
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Legally, the president is within his rights to revoke security clearances, as this article aptly describes.
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The clearances and multiple roles could bring up potential conflicts of interest within the incoming administration.
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Trump is also reviewing security clearances for several other former intelligence officials who have criticized him.
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This, as 130 appointees, including the President's daughter and son-in-law, lack permanent security clearances.
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But here's the stat that tops them all: Japan had 222 clearances in the half — 219!
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This spring, aides faced near constant questions about how the White House doled out security clearances.
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From revoked security clearances to the Manafort trial, it's been a busy week in American politics.
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Mr. Kelly declined to discuss questions that have arisen about security clearances since Mr. Porter resigned.
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The House Oversight Committee has been investigating how Kushner and Ivanka Trump obtained their security clearances.
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Those clearances are expected to take months for each application, AP cited the official as saying.
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His government has made it faster for industry, including mining, to get environmental clearances, rankling environmentalists.
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As director of national intelligence, Mr. Clapper began the push to reduce the number of clearances.
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They also requested more details of individuals with interim clearances, and how that process was governed.
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Other panels are probing separate issues, including Trump's finances and abuses of White House security clearances.
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In his memo, Kelly stated that all interim clearances would be discontinued in a week's time.
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They've also been criticized for the slow process of issuing security clearances to state election officials.
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But defense lawyers, even those with security clearances, are not shown FISA applications for their clients.
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Staffers who had already been granted clearances can hold to them while background probes were finished.
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More than 30 White House staffers were reportedly also stripped of their security clearances last month.
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Brennan has also said he will consider legal action to block Trump from revoking other clearances.
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He would only say that the people had proper security clearances and needed to be protected.
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Rand Paul of Kentucky who proposed administering lie detector tests to staffers with national security clearances.
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Local officials have defended the clearances as a way to improve safety and eliminate subpar schools.
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"That undermines the importance of security clearances, particularly when it comes to national security," he said.
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People who are granted security clearances are periodically reinvestigated to determine if they are still qualified.
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Clearances for the family members would allow Trump to discuss matters of national security with them.
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Read more: House Democrats launch sweeping obstruction probe White House security clearances: The House Oversight Committee is the chamber's top investigative body — so it's intriguing that as its first major probe, it's looking into the esoteric-sounding question of how the Trump administration handles security clearances.
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" White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters on Monday that the President is weighing the possibility of stripping the security clearances of a half-dozen former officials, arguing that the individuals under scrutiny have "politicized and, in some cases, monetized their public service and security clearances.
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In a letter to the White House on Monday, Cummings said Newbold detailed the cases of three anonymous "senior White House officials" whose clearances career officials recommended should be denied, though the White House went ahead and granted clearances to two of the three unnamed individuals.
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Ivanka denied her father's involvement in the couple's obtaining their security clearances as recently as early February.
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"The reality is they probably could care less about their clearances," Zaid said of the former officials.
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According to the Post, Trump wants to sign "most, if not all" of the orders revoking clearances.
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Many of them, like Giuliani, have neither security clearances nor any recently sworn oaths to the Constitution.
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Companies that work on projects related to national defense may also require security clearances and U.S. citizenship.
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Some contractors may have staff with security clearances who are briefed on or closer to operations, though.
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This gives House committees a new marker as they continue their investigation of White House security clearances.
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Dozens of officials, including Kushner, had worked under temporary clearances in the absence of final security clearance.
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The trend has continued in Rio with tens of thousands forced out, in often-brutal favela clearances.
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First of all, people are stunned and amazed that John Brennan and others would have these clearances.
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Clearances are kept by senior officials typically up until now and in the past as a courtesy.
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Few county government chiefs have security clearances, and elections weren't designated as critical infrastructure until January 2017.
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Services such as cash deposits and withdrawals, cheque clearances, ATM operations were affected, according to bank employees.
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Roughly 100,000 people have interim clearances, according to McClatchy, meaning they haven't actually been entirely vetted yet.
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Meanwhile, the White House has backtracked on a commitment that Trump's children would not receive security clearances.
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The lengthy process includes obtaining security clearances, performing background checks, and evaluating potential financial conflicts of interest.
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Swetnick is a web developer and has held multiple security clearances doing work for various government agencies.
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To an ordinary citizen, it seems only prudent to revoke the clearances of officials fired for cause.
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The New York Times reports that Comey and McCabe have not had security clearances for some time.
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Newer vehicles have higher clearances, and the force of a blast diminishes rapidly as it radiates outward.
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As each one reaches new construction benchmarks, additional permits and clearances will be required from government agencies.
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And Kelly's standing at the White House has taken a hit following the controversy over security clearances.
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The rider also covers employees who work within intelligence agencies or who have top secret security clearances.
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People violating such protocols lost access and faced possible loss of all clearances, dismissal and legal sanctions.
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Former national security officials typically keep their clearances so that they can advise and counsel their successors.
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Ivanka Trump and Kushner reportedly faced pushback from top officials in the administration over their security clearances.
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This would dramatically reduce the backlog for low-risk clearances and get these individuals to work faster.
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Very sensitive information about individuals who had to disclose information for clearances is now in the open.
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They do not even recognize one another's security clearances; they prefer to conduct their own background checks.
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Ballard said at that time, agents risked losing their security clearances and their jobs by coming out.
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"It appears that President Trump has invented an entirely new standard for revoking security clearances," he wrote.
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"CIA does not comment on individual security clearances," a CIA spokesperson told The Hill in a statement.
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Others, however, said revoking the security clearances of critics is different from targeting minority or religious groups.
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The full story regarding the other clearances in which Kline overruled career officials' recommendations isn't yet known.
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"I was never involved with the security" clearances for Kushner, Trump was quoted as saying last month.
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Court clerks with clearances are now able to check criminal records themselves through the state's electronic portal.
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But if you like clearances, blocked shots and interceptions, this may be your favorite of the tournament.
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Both men were among the former officials said to be under consideration for losing their security clearances.
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That delays cause background checks and medical clearances to expire, forcing applicants to restart the entire process?
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"We followed military officials with security clearances as they drove home at night," write Thompson and Warzel.
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A transition official denied at the time that Trump had requested his children receive top security clearances.
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He also ordered access to highly classified information be limited for the remaining aides with interim clearances.
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He held security clearances that allowed him access to some of the government's most sensitive intelligence programs.
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Little surprise, the administration struggled with basic tasks of governance — like submitting nominations and getting security clearances.
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Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan foresaw the risks of unconstrained presidential authority over classified information and security clearances.
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Allowing individuals who pose a potential threat to our country access to security clearances that could put Americans at risk is unacceptable, and I call on the Justice Department to immediately bring denaturalization proceedings against the 2628 individuals whom DHS identified as having security clearances or criminal backgrounds.
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The change came as sources told CNN that White House chief of staff John Kelly moved to downgrade temporary clearances for top White House staffers as concerns about overreliance on interim security clearances boiled over after staff secretary Rob Porter's resignation following domestic abuse allegations earlier this month.
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It's also delayed hiring plans for new employees who require certain federal clearances, such as mechanics, Delta said.
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"We were getting out of control with the interim clearances," Newbold told the committee during a recent interview.
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Five miles away Chelmsley Wood, whose tower blocks absorbed Birmingham's post-war slum clearances, was 72% for Leave.
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However, the office failed to report the issue to the DEA's office in charge of adjudicating security clearances.
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But some patently unfit for security clearances have slipped through before comprehensive background checks can be fully investigated.
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First, the British troops will tackle more mundane obstacles en route, such as border clearances and vehicle breakdowns.
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At the time of writing, the situation appears to remain the same: no security clearances have been granted.
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Revoke any top-secret interim clearances for individuals who have been under investigation since before June 1, 2017.
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The president probably can pull the clearances of former officials, though none have chosen to do this before.
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House Democrats are likely to seek information from Newbold about the process to approve clearances for Trump advisers.
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"There is a tremendous amount of clearances and paperwork that go into any use of aircraft," he said.
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" "There are rules and regulations on how you can take away people's clearances if they do something inappropriate.
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"Decisions on security clearances should be based on national security concerns and not political views," the statement reads.
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CBS News reported on Monday the president-elect was seeking top-secret security clearances for his adult children.
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Still, Democrats on the panel said he failed to properly document his rationale for granting clearances, Politico reported.
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The president accused Brennan and others of "profiting" off of their security clearances, a charge which Brennan denies.
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It's not clear if Clinton or longtime aides Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan still hold active security clearances.
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Its members and staff have security clearances and a mandate to investigate government practices that affect individual rights.
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Of the roughly 323 million citizens of the United States, more than four million hold federal security clearances.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) asked for information regarding other officials who have not yet obtained full security clearances.
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Yes, for those with security clearances, but to avoid disclosing classified information, NOT to bar disparaging the administration.
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The AP also notes that the information focused on items like birth certificates, wedding certificates and tax clearances.
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Any exculpatory evidence must be disclosed to the defense, though attorneys need security clearances to see classified information.
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The concerns do not affect the country's intelligence agencies, which do not grant interim security clearances, he said.
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He has given them celebrity, fancy government titles, security clearances and entry into circles they'd never penetrate otherwise.
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Alternative Brexit strategies fail, Turkey experiences a political shake-up, and Trump administration security clearances are under scrutiny.
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Federal employees need security clearances, which can take anywhere from six months to a year to go through.
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He has specifically requested information on the clearances of nine current and former administration officials, including Mr. Kushner.
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In response, the military layered on additional security clearances for recruits to pass before heading to boot camp.
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According to data provided by Opta, no Premier League team has blocked more shots or made more clearances.
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It lost the files of about 21.5 million Americans who had filed extensive questionnaires for their security clearances.
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Liendo drives two routes, both of them absurdly steep, with switchback turns and clearances best measured in millimetres.
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The OPM receives roughly 20,000 to 30,85033 background checks each week, processing over 600,000 security clearances each year.
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Former top-level officials usually keep their clearances because their wealth of experience is useful to the nation.
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Because there are a set of 123 guidelines by which national security clearances are typically evaluated and revoked.
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Microsoft's website lists more than 100 openings for people with security clearances, though none mention JEDI by name.
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Dozens of other administration officials have had long-term access to top secret materials through interim security clearances.
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The House Oversight Committee also hit a stalemate this week on their investigation into White House security clearances.
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The White House has consistently refused to comment about individual security clearances or the implications of losing them.
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There are other media personalities who have had security clearances, noted Moss, including the television host George Stephanopoulos.
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" He highlights changes already made to the clearance process, including an end to interim clearances "absent extraordinary circumstances.
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The President's crusade to grant clearances to his daughter and her husband, Jared Kushner, rankled West Wing officials.
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"As has always been our policy, we do not comment on security clearances," Sanders said in a statement.
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Gail: The idea of the president revoking the security clearances of his critics is slimy to the core.
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To be honest, I don't see why so many former government officials need security clearances to begin with.
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Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chuck Grassley, both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have written a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray and White House Counsel Don McGahn asking about the process of granting interim security clearances, who has clearances in the White House, and what they're able to access.
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If Trump decides to pull the clearances of some deep state actors, who no longer have any legitimate claim to those clearances anyway, he will be putting the next crop of intel chiefs on notice: if you want to play partisan politics, get ready to be treated like a partisan player.
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It's not all that unusual to see interim secret or top secret clearances granted for over a year, but it is unusual to see SCI interim clearances for that long, because these are people who have access to the highest levels of classified information, including the president's daily security brief.
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Under the law, those who do not register can be denied federal jobs, security clearances, education grants and citizenship.
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The hackers accessed sensitive information related to the background checks and security clearances of roughly 21.5 million federal employees.
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"We have standing committees in the Senate that have all the appropriate clearances to do the investigations," said Sen.
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There are potentially legitimate reasons to revoke the security clearances of some of these individuals who have been named.
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"Things get canceled, security clearances expire," said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services.
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Earlier this month, reports revealed that numerous White House staffers, including Kushner, were still working with interim security clearances.
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About 35 people in the White House are believed to be working in the administration without permanent security clearances.
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Cipollone sent a similar letter earlier this month refusing to turn over documents related to White House security clearances.
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Congressional committees are probing everything from how Trump's son-in-law and daughter got security clearances to Trump's taxes.
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He will work on getting FDA clearances and approvals, marketing new products, and look into medical-device quality systems.
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Their targets range from his tax returns and policy decisions to his Washington hotel and his children's security clearances.
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And then you have the Dems saying stuff like, well, the revoking of the security clearances are a deflection.
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Fascinating a subject as it is, the public has little occasion to worry about the intricacies of security clearances.
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"If we did not give these individuals interim clearances, the production of these programs would shut down," Payne said.
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" Donald Trump earlier Wednesday called reports he is seeking security clearances for his children "a typically false news story.
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"We don't discuss security clearances," White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during a briefing last week.
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Workers with clearances are already in high demand by government agencies and contractors who have access to classified information.
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Yet the investigation could result in administrative sanctions, which include a potential loss of security clearances for those involved.
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Previously, former CIA directors John Deutch and David Petraeus both had their clearances revoked because of serious security lapses.
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Democrats on the committee last month also opened an expansive probe into the White House's handling of security clearances.
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Two officials on her list -- Comey and McCabe -- no longer have security clearances, people familiar with the matter said.
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"I've never seen anything quite like this," Bill Savarino, a Washington lawyer specializing in security clearances, said on Wednesday.
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The administration has drafted more notices to revoke the security clearances of current and former officials critical of Trump.
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Close ties to foreign family members can also turn into roadblocks when new workers seek to gain security clearances.
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In the wide-ranging interview, Nunes also addressed reports that Trump is considering revoking former intelligence officials' security clearances.
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But issues such as land acquisition, resettlement and environmental clearances could make such an aggressive timetable untenable, Madhavan said.
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The act provided for pre-inaugural security clearances for those persons who might serve in top foreign policy positions.
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As some White House reporters pointed out in the briefing, revoking their clearances has the optics of political retaliation.
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Granting interim clearances have become necessary in order to keep weapons development programs running at full force, he added.
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CBS News reported on Monday that the president-elect was seeking top-secret security clearances for his adult children.
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It may strike fear into the many civil servants and government contractors who need security clearances for their jobs.
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Of the up to 150 state election officials designated to receive clearances, only about 20 have them, she said.
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For secret and top secret clearances, the White House has its own Office of Security that makes that decision.
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The White House also blocked a former official from answering questions about security clearances to officials including Jared Kushner.
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But it also removed environmental clearances for construction projects of up to 50,000 square meters, or 2.53,000 square feet.
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We have honored and repaid that trust, guarding sensitive information and fulfilling the obligations associated with our security clearances.
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"Our investigators with (security) clearances have gone down there and looked at the documents," the Oversight committee aide said.
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All executive branch employees with security clearances must adhere to the new rules, not all Department of Justice employees.
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For that they need TS/SCI, more commonly known as Top Secret security clearance, as high as clearances go.
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"I've gotten tremendous response for having done that because security clearances are very important to me," he told reporters.
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We had some very critical people who did not have security clearances who could not go, one official said.
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"If I did, believe me, the F.B.I. would be down my throat, my clearances would be pulled," he said.
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Democrats are seeking to delay the proceedings because the nominees have not all completed background checks and ethics clearances.
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Military contractors, consultants and information technology companies have also been known to seek out job candidates with security clearances.
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CNN military analyst John Kirby, a former Navy rear admiral, says foreign students have to have certain military clearances.
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Dozens of White House officials have operated on interim clearances since Trump took office more than a year ago.
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The violence against people, the land abuses, the forest clearances and the corruption they did not show on television.
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Russian nationals are not given the security clearances needed to work in the more clandestine branches of the embassy.
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According to CNN, Kushner is among several officials who have had clearances delayed because of mistakes in their paperwork.
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"There weren't any, other than a backlog that exists of close to a million clearances across government," Trump said.
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For example, we have gotten involved in the outsourcing of security clearances, we have gotten involved in the backlog.
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Ms. Newbold told lawmakers that Mr. Kline discriminated against her when she raised these concerns about the security clearances.
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"We have never before seen the approval or removal of security clearances used as a political tool," they wrote.
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"It's not all that unusual to see interim secret or top-secret clearances granted for over a year," Zaid told Illing, "but it is unusual to see SCI interim clearances for that long, because these are people who have access to the highest levels of classified information, including the president's daily security brief."
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And in July, when the administration first started indicating they planned to pull security clearances, Speaker of the House Rep.
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" In a statement to PEOPLE on Friday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said, "We don't comment on security clearances.
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Getting back to that topic of security clearances, the system for security clearance actually needs to be cleaned up significantly.
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"The President-elect's request of top secret security clearances for his children must be reconsidered," he said in a statement.
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Airport clearances and disagreements over how many weapons and people Machar can bring with him have repeatedly delayed the trip.
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Stripping the clearances also would represent a public rebuke of the officials and sever a connection with the intelligence community.
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"Clearances are taken away for security violations, usually after an investigation," former deputy CIA director John McLaughlin said on Twitter.
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Auction clearances have been trending lower in Sydney lately, although last week the final result climbed back just above 70%.
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There are certain guidelines under which clearances can be revoked, and the executive order requires an explanation in those instances.
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She and husband Jared Kushner, another top presidential aide, have weathered criticism about their qualifications, security clearances and true motives.
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But you should probably figure out your noise clearances before you have a festival in the middle of a park.
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The rigid protocols that we impose on most people with security clearances do not always make sense for senior diplomats.
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It feels like the old school days of Barney's Warehouse's epic clearances at its old Chelsea hub all over again.
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But even if the information is publicly available, those with clearances cannot reveal anything they learn in a classified setting.
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The trash was declared illegal as the private Canada-based company responsible for shipping the cargo didn't have import clearances.
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The companies have almost completed the process of seeking clearances which must span multiple jurisdictions, one of the sources added.
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Earlier this year it was reported that Trump personally intervened in their security clearances — a legal if highly unusual move.
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In February, Bayer said it was aiming to get regulatory clearances and close the transaction before the end of 2017.
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Moreover, more than 1.5 million federal employees hold top secret security clearances, a testimony to the government's obsession with secrecy.
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The measures, announced on April 16, included banning the unloading of imported coal at some ports and tightening customs clearances.
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I have publicly said that her aides will face an uphill battle receiving security clearances ever again, and rightly so.
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In 2012, he tried to weaken protections afforded to another (large) group of federal employees: those who hold security clearances.
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Kavanaugh, however, said that employees had no right to file discrimination claims related in any way to their security clearances.
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Behold John Brooks making one of his many defensive clearances during the USMNT's 1-0 defeat of Paraguay on Saturday.
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Grant temporary clearances for 180 days with the option of extending for 90 days if no derogatory information is found.
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But, you know, legally the president has that prerogative and he can suspend and revoke clearances as he sees fit.
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If merger clearances are not obtained for the transaction LSE will pay a termination fee of £198.3m to Refinitiv Holdings.
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House Democrats are upping the pressure on the Trump administration to explain apparent inconsistencies in how it handles security clearances.
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A group of U.S. scientists — all with top secret security clearances — takes the subway to a conference on missile defense.
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Several White House staffers have been forced out for failing background checks as part of the national security clearances process.
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If the President revokes the clearances, it would amount to an unprecedented use of presidential authority to punish political rivals.
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" On CNN's "The Situation Room" later Monday, Clapper said revoking clearances of intelligence officials critical of the President was "chilling.
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Critics quickly seized on the announcement, even as those under consideration downplayed the actual effect losing their clearances might have.
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Ivanka Trump previously claimed that her father had "zero" involvement in securing top security clearances for her or her husband.
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Mr. Young recommended three poems: "Clearances" by Seamus Heaney, "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden or "Infirm" by Gwendolyn Brooks.
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Interim clearances are minimally invasive and granted on a temporary basis, pending the completion of a more intense background investigation.
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The transaction is dependent on shareholder and regulatory approvals and clearances — with closure slated for the second half of 2018.
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It appears the committee already has leaked documents concerning Kushner and Ivanka Trump's security clearances, per a report from Axios.
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The Times reported that they could face tough questions as they seek security clearances for diplomatic or national security posts.
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Members of a president's family do not receive clearances, even though the president may discuss sensitive topics in their presence.
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Traditionally, former senior national security advisers and intelligence chiefs retain their clearances, so they can consult and advise their successors.
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Kelly said that he had reduced the number of clearances in the White House and in some cases, demoted others.
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Some, worried about climate change, don't want to see the clearances happen since trees are particularly good at storing carbon.
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"We had some very critical people who did not have security clearances who could not go," one official told Reuters.
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To date, 21 officials in 20 states received at least interim "secret"-level clearances, Ms. Manfra said in the interview.
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It was not immediately clear if any prior U.S. president had revoked former intelligence officers' security clearances for similar reasons.
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It was not clear what in Mr. Townley's past disqualified him, and in every administration some officials are denied clearances.
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Top-secret clearances are typically required for people viewing foreign intelligence or sitting in on high-level White House meetings.
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Officials and contractors who seek security clearances routinely agree to submit writings that relate to their work for prepublication review.
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"We don't comment on security clearances or personnel issues," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told CNN in a statement.
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CNN reported Friday that at least 30 officials and political appointees have been working in the administration with interim clearances.
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It was less clear how the dozens of other officials who now have downgraded clearances will proceed in their positions.
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It also comes as questions grow over Kushner's security clearances, and some have called for Kushner to lose his clearance.
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" White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement to CNN on Thursday, "We don't comment on security clearances.
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Before obtaining high level clearances, prospective government employees often undergo more than a year of investigation and lie detector tests.
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Multiple White House staffers have either been fired or reassigned over issues with their security clearances, ABC News reported Wednesday.
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Pressed on how many interim clearances were no longer operable, Sanders again deflected, saying she wouldn't discuss the clearance process.
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Some also said it could be an attempt to strip the security clearances of former Clinton aides and allies. Sen.
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Newbold was a veteran manager in the White House office that processes security clearances and had worked there since 2000.
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Collins and Heinrich introduced comprehensive legislation on Halloween that included streamlining the process for state officials to get security clearances.
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All athletes had received necessary clearances to use the substances in question, and none of the information constituted a violation.
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The first breaches of data from the Office of Personnel Management started with a contractor doing interviews for security clearances.
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For example, in 2016 President Obama passed an executive order that amended the structure and processes for issuing security clearances.
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The first phase is expected to be completed within 15 months from the date of obtaining regulatory clearances, the company said.
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" A CBS Sports spokeswoman said only that it chose not to do the feature "because we couldn't get the appropriate clearances.
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He noted that the Supreme Court determined in 1988 that the final authority to bestow security clearances lies with the President.
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And the fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges provides inappropriately legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence.
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Workers with secret clearance are re-evaluated every 10 years, and those with top secret clearances are checked every five years.
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Pelosi says that doctors should also do blood work testing and medical clearances before a liposuction procedure to ensure your safety.
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ABC News reported Wednesday that "several" White House staffers who had issues getting permanent security clearances had been fired or reassigned.
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"We will read in the appropriate officials that day if we need to whether or not they have clearances," Nielsen said.
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Former FBI Director James Comey and former National Security Agency director Michael Hayden, among others, could also see their clearances revoked.
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Outside the mayor's office, more than a dozen men wait for security clearances to allow them to travel outside Al-Qayyara.
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The committee wants to ask him about allegations that the Trump administration inappropriately granted clearances to some of the president's advisers.
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It presages ongoing rejections of requests related to how the White House doled out individual security clearances to senior Trump aides.
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Newbold identified 25 instances where concerns had been raised over White House officials' clearances, including for Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
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Fallon also said that all of the lawyers who sorted Clinton's emails did in fact have security clearances, contradicting Comey's comments.
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Because as retailers see the sale season — and their stock of merchandise — peter out, that's when the deep clearances finally begin.
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Instead, they are once again in panic crisis mode over the president&aposs push to remove top security clearances from who?
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Clinton still a government employee, administrative actions could be taken against her, to include the loss of clearances and possibly termination.
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The Daily Mail claimed sources told them that Porter's "dark past" was the reason for his failure to secure security clearances.
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White House security clearances: Trump said the process is broken, and trusts his chief of staff John Kelly will fix it.
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Some transition officials thought it was inappropriate to dispense such clearances until the Trump children's roles in government became more defined.
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Will he revoke the security clearances of hard-working professionals in the intelligence community who do not produce reports he likes?
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The remaining employees will be focused on "obtaining FDA clearances, building commercial partnerships, and pursuing publications in scientific journals," Holmes wrote.
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"It's a site where people put up all their former security clearances and where they used to work," the official said.
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Unfortunately, over the last year we have seen the opposite of progress when it comes to refugee processing and security clearances.
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They're often making summertime pushes for catalog clearances, or just need summer help to fill in when people go on vacation.
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"We're exploring what those options are and what that looks like," she said of the process for removing the officials clearances.
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If Clinton and her team are not prosecuted, or at least punished by permanent denial of security clearances, who should be?
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Clinton and her aides criminal charges, it does not remove the possibility that they could be denied security clearances if Mrs.
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The job of doing security clearances, once the province of the White House Office of Personnel Management, is moving to DoD.
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The letters ranged from questions about Cabinet secretary travel to immigration to security clearances to hurricane recovery efforts by the administration.
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NBC also listed White House counsel Don McGahn and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as having interim clearances as of November.
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US government officials with the expertise, security clearances and commitment to national security engage with foreign counterparts on the President's behalf.
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Brennan on Sunday, however, said he is thinking about an appeal to prevent Trump from revoking the clearances of other officials.
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Trump is also reviewing the security clearances of other former officials, including former FBI Director James Comey, the Washington Post reported.
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After Kelly and McGahn objected, Trump overrode his former chief of staff and White House counsel and issued the clearances himself.
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No holiday is fulfilled until you've taken full advantage of the mega clearances that pop up around a three-day weekend.
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They are looking into matters of legitimate importance, from how the White House has handled security clearances to obstruction of justice.
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It felt like they went to that well quite a bit, and a few times his clearances went straight to Croatia.
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One is that if agents' families end up in credit trouble due to missing pay, that could undermine their security clearances.
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As Washington lawyer Mark Zaid recently explained to Vox's Sean Illing, in most presidential administrations, permanent security clearances aren't so problematic.
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He has also refused to allow the committee to vote on three subpoenas proposed by Democrats, including one on interim clearances.
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During the OPM intrusions, suspected Chinese hackers made off with these sensitive details on nearly 20 million people seeking security clearances.
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It's not clear which of those staffers gained full clearances in the three months since the information was produced in November.
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But security clearances are issued by the Defense Department, not the White House, and are not subject to direct political oversight.
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The state is now seeking forest and environment clearances after which it will open up the reserves for bidding, Jacob said.
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Still, any individuals determined to have leaked classified information about Trump's calls could be fired and stripped of their security clearances.
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The Porter episode also led to scrutiny over the system of security clearances and questions over accountability at top staff levels.
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The report says that threat information-sharing programs are hindered by intelligence being classified and clearances being too difficult to obtain.
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Many people were also injured by both police and protester action during the attempted clearances of the CUHK and PolyU campuses.
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Adding to the sense of uncertainty is a lack of clarity on who exactly has been stripped of their temporary clearances.
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Those who did get clearances based on expert recommendations may also feel less comfortable having candid, substantive, classified conversations at work.
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More than 100 White House officials were still working on interim clearances in November, according to the information provided to CNN.
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The president threw them to the wolves on the security clearances, now it's just matter of time before they are gone.
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The FBI conducts background investigations for clearances up to top secret at the request of government agencies -- including the White House.
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Hunter had some of the fiercest pushback to Weintraub's proposals and Chairman Steven Walther also appeared hesitant about seeking security clearances.
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In practice such associations limit industry staff with US security clearances from fixing holes based on leaked information from the CIA.
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TRUMP: But, uh, I don't believe I've ever met any of the national security — of the people that would do clearances.
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But are we really going to go through this whole conversation with no mention of Omarosa, nondisclosure agreements or security clearances?
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An earlier version of this article misstated the year of a Supreme Court case regarding the president's power over security clearances.
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House Democrats are in the early stages of an investigation into how several Trump administration officials obtained clearances, including Mr. Kushner.
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The chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee is starting an investigation into the handling of security clearances by President Donald Trump's White House and 2016 presidential transition A powerful House committee now led by Democrats is opening an investigation into how security clearances have been handled in President Donald Trump's White House and 2016 presidential transition.
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Washington (CNN)A new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds that 70% of Americans are concerned about the number of employees who are serving in the White House without permanent security clearances, as the White House deals with the downgrade of clearances for dozens of employees who haven't yet received permanent approval for top secret access.
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Moss said interim security clearances could be issued but only after the form is reviewed and there are no immediate red flags.
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"The fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges provides inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence," she said.
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So it seems by publicly revoking clearances, Trump is really going on the record and politicizing this more than he has to.
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It's worth noting that being president gives Trump the legal authority to do what he wants when it comes to security clearances.
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Ms Warnecke says her overworked 33 homicide detectives officially have 4.8 cases each, but low clearances mean cases, like bodies, pile up.
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Revoking security clearances won't preclude anyone from speaking out against the Trump administration, and in fact spawned a fresh wave of criticism.
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And unlike other parts of Kushner's portfolio, like landing a Middle East peace deal, it doesn't involve security clearances and foreign contacts.
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Accredited journalists in India face fewer security clearances when visiting government offices and are eligible for subsidized train travel, among other benefits.
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He said it was unlikely to be true given the kind of security clearances that Dr. Jackson requires to do his job.
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Other changes allow towers to issue text-based departure clearances to pilots instead of requiring all communications to be via voice radio.
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The Argentine's rosy-eyed impressions took no account of the Chinese authorities' ruthless clearances of poor neighbourhoods, or indeed of religious persecution.
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It's also saying no to subpoenas for testimony on security clearances and a citizenship question that's being added to the 2020 census.
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The news: The White House this week rejected the committee's request for documents on the process for granting security clearances to staffers.
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Kushner's team recently used misleading language to infer to press that his security clearances had been restored long before they actually had.
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Refugees pulled off flights during the original confusion of Trump's refugee ban likely saw all of their security and medical clearances expire.
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The Secure Elections Act calls for security clearances for election officials so that they can be informed more quickly of cybersecurity threats.
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The report cleared Leonhart of having lied when she testified under oath to Congress that she had no impact on security clearances.
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"Neither GDMA nor any other defense contractor has ever been granted such unfettered clearances," the Justice Department said in a press release.
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An IndiGo spokeswoman said that IndiGo flights flying via Pakistan "will operate as normal after all regulatory clearances by the concerned authorities".
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The Porter incident ignited a controversy over the security clearances process within the White House that led to a slew of departures.
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He said he would expect to hear from an intelligence official about his clearances, but as of yet, nobody has reached out.
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Trump said he is also reviewing the clearances of several former intelligence officials, many of whom have spoken critically of the president.
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He has also said he will consider a lawsuit to block Trump from revoking additional clearances, a threat the president has welcomed.
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"I think that's a real misuse of not only security clearances, but a misuse of the office of the presidency," he said.
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Harlow said that while Trump has the authority to revoke security clearances, the move would be viewed as inappropriate under any administration.
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While investigations for mid-level clearances were supposed to take only 28500 days last year, the average wait was about double that.
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"We are in good discussion regarding ... (Russian) clearances and we expect to receive them by mid-year," he told a news conference.
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Usually former senior officials retain clearances so their successors can consult with them on a pro bono basis, the former official said.
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The House Oversight and Reform Committee is currently conducting an investigation into the White House's handling of security clearances for administration officials.
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Major hearings this week include a Wednesday panel on security clearances, a process often seen as a bottleneck across the security spectrum.
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This may seem like a cruel joke, but the backlog of employees waiting for security clearances has made this situation a reality.
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"My client has been issued a number of security clearances, fully vetted and she is an honest and courageous woman," he added.
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Some of the names on Jordan's list have already been identified by the White House as liable to losing their security clearances.
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The U.S. military said an F-16 jet intercepted the plane flying "without proper clearances or communications" at around 12:30 p.m.
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It has been reported that Chinese actors were able to exfiltrate the files of around 21 million Americans who hold security clearances.
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He also defended a tweet then-President-elect Trump sent out in November, denying reports his children would be getting security clearances.
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It's worth stressing that being president gives Trump the legal authority to do what he wants when it comes to security clearances.
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White House President Trump made good on his threat to strip away the security clearances of his critics in the intelligence community.
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Top national security officials typically keep their clearances after leaving government so they can consult current officials on national security issues. 4.
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" The former intelligence chief said that someone's security clearances are typically only put in jeopardy "if they mishandle or divulge classified information.
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According to her résumé and her statement, she has held several government clearances, including with the State Department and the Justice Department.
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The White House said the president was considering revoking the security clearances of other former national security officials and one current official.
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Just last week, the White House included him on a list of people the president was considering stripping of their security clearances.
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The comments sparked backlash on Capitol Hill amid revelations that many of the people named by Sanders no longer have security clearances.
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Dozens of officials, including Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are working under temporary clearances in the absence of final security clearance.
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"He felt he could talk to me because at one time I had clearances at the highest level as well," Keup says.
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Her résumé and her lawyer's statement say she has held several government clearances, including with the State Department and the Justice Department.
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"Both my parents had top secret clearances," he writes, which is about the most loving thing he says about either of them.
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President Trump is considering revoking the security clearances of former officials who have criticized his refusal to confront Russia over election interference.
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Nearly 4.1 million people hold security clearances, according to the most recent report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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"We had some very critical people who did not have security clearances who could not go," one official told the newswire service.
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"Last night, we received a completely inadequate response from the White House regarding our Committee's request for information about security clearances," Rep.
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After interning at the National Security Agency, he worked for six years at the C.I.A., where he had the highest security clearances.
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Nada Bakos, a former CIA analyst said Monday that a year was a "long time" for permanent clearances to still be outstanding.
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The White House has attributed the backlog of clearances to the review process from the FBI and White House Office of Security.
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Dozens of staffers were notified last week in a memo that interim security clearances would be downgraded from the top secret level.
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Those interim clearances became stand-ins for the larger Washington debate over links between members of the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has repeatedly told reporters she does not discuss the individual security clearances of White House officials.
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Officials are also working to give full security clearances to state election officials so they can share sensitive information on cybersecurity threats.
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Among appointees working with interim clearances, 47 of them are in positions that report directly to President Donald Trump, NBC News added.
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It's unclear which, if any, of the staffers have obtained full clearances since November, according to the government information obtained by CNN.
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McClanahan said that because security clearances are so valuable in Washington, defense contractors often take advantage of a system with scant oversight.
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Schiff also said the committee must wait for the acting director of national intelligence to issue security clearances to the whistleblower's lawyers.
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In March of 2017, Grassley had asked for an update on the review of security clearances for Clinton and her top aides.
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It provided 33,000 houses with indoor toilets and neat gardens, luxuries to families displaced by postwar slum clearances in London's East End.
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At the time, Mr. Kelly wrote a five-page memo, revoking temporary clearances that had been in place since June 1, 2017.
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There is also a chance that international versions of the service will launch before the U.S. launch due to streaming rights clearances.
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Companies that rely on federal contracts can be stripped of permissions like security clearances, or simply get all their contract bids rejected.
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NBC reported well over 100 current White House staffers have been working under interim security clearances, and Banks was one of them.
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About 100 White House administration officials lacked long-term security clearances as of November 2017, according to reports from NBC News and CNN.
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These are people with the highest security clearances who have always in the past have been allowed today look at material like this.
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Security clearances — how people can access them, and how they're revoked — are governed by a 1995 executive order issued by President Bill Clinton.
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She also registered concern around the "unusually high" number of interim security clearances Trump administration officials who handled classified information were working with.
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" She adds that friends of hers "with security clearances were subjected to harassment and loss of their jobs, because of what [Manning] did.
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Clearances for White House brass have come under scrutiny amid ongoing fallout from the White House's handling of former staff secretary Rob Porter.
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But the California Republican noted that those who have clearances but violate the rules about releasing it are typically denied any further access.
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You brought up an interesting point about people, though, still in the FBI, or still in the DOJ that do have these clearances.
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These -- what are these people doing making comments on national television with still with clearances and picking up paychecks from CNN and MSNBC?
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After all, when can you find up 70% clearances on upcoming fall trends and summer essentials like shorts, heeled sandals, and gingham dresses?
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President Donald Trump may revoke the security clearances of former CIA Director John Brennan and several other former intelligence and national security officials.
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It&aposs perfectly legitimate, though, for the president to recall the clearances of retirees in the interest of national security, isn&apost it?
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The bill will also provide a set of voluntary cybersecurity guidelines for election systems, as well as security clearances to state election officials.
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As others have pointed out, people with security clearances are prohibited from using marijuana; partaking in any way could lose you your clearance.
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A senior administration official said Thursday that McMaster has written letters to all past national security advisers -- including Rice -- extending their security clearances.
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On Wednesday, the committee launched an investigation into security clearances issued to Trump's transition team, including Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn, NBC reported.
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A Skye man, he had been dispossessed in the Highland Clearances, and in 1837 had spent his savings on a passage to Australia.
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The whistleblower told the committee the White House intervened to give high-level clearances to 25 people who had previously been denied them.
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Cummings said on Thursday that the White House blocked a former official from answering questions about the security clearances of Trump and Kushner.
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The decision, announced Thursday morning, comes after revelations about the government awarding security clearances to individuals with criminal backgrounds and suspicious financial dealings.
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In June 2018, the Philippines's Office of the Ombudsman reportedly ruled the containers illegal, alleging that Chronic Plastics shipped them without import clearances.
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Both responded earlier this month, declining to carry out the request because of the president's broad authority over the issuance of security clearances.
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The Washington Post reported Thursday that dozens of Trump administration officials still lack permanent security clearances more than a year into Trump's presidency.
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The letter asks for a list of those with interim clearances, as well as the status of FBI background investigations into those individuals.
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Kushner had his security clearance downgraded in February, along with dozens of other White House staffers who had been working on interim clearances.
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Sigurdsson made 10 clearances and 5 interceptions, won four aerial duels and made one tackle as the last man in defense on Monday.
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In addition to revoking Brennan's clearance, Trump put out a list of several former intelligence officials from whom he's considering taking clearances away.
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Even people with above-Top-Secret clearances (I was one) have no access to the information without a strictly enforced need to know.
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At least 30 White House officials received their top-secret clearances after career officials recommended rejecting their applications, NBC News reported in January.
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She stated that the president has "the constitutional authority" to revoke intelligence officials' security clearances, despite them traditionally being revoked by their superiors.
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Trump announced last week that he was revoking Brennan's security clearance, and is considering revoking the clearances of several other former intelligence officials.
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There is an extensive process dictated by long standing presidential executive orders that is used to grant a clearance and renew security clearances.
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Both have been outspoken against Trump and both are included on a list of officials whose security clearances the administration is considering pulling.
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Land clearances for beef and soy farms have been "key drivers of deforestation", especially in the early years of the period, they said.
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Clearances are typically revoked for cause, because of a security concern like alcoholism, financial problems, health concerns or the mishandling of classified material.
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"This is the politicization of security clearances," said David Priess, a former C.I.A. officer who has written a book on presidential intelligence briefings.
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And it is likely to worry the consulting firms, defense contractors and other private businesses that have employees with security clearances, they said.
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Longstanding legal precedent gives presidents nearly unfettered power to confer and revoke security clearances — though Mr. Trump's predecessors have always delegated that authority.
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The committee's investigation into White House security clearances began after Porter, a former staff secretary, resigned amid domestic abuse allegations, which he denies.
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Clinton's private email server, they each had to hire lawyers and endured months of uncertainty about whether they would lose their security clearances.
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Normally, the time frame for obtaining security clearances for officials serving in highly sensitive posts takes two, three or four months at most.
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It requires those with full permanent clearances to remain vigilant about what information is shared with those still operating on an interim basis.
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The White House has declined to publicly detail the security clearance process or say which officials are operating on interim or full clearances.
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Kelly had grown frustrated with the high number of aides without permanent access and has worked to shrink the number of temporary clearances.
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Top-secret security clearances are granted after in-depth background checks and are required if government officials need access to highly classified information.
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DHS took nearly a year to inform the affected states of hacking attempts, blaming it in part on a lack of security clearances.
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Those bombshells came on the heels of news Tuesday that Kushner had his top secret clearances stripped by chief of staff John Kelly.
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CyberPoint told some recruits the company could preserve their clearances even while they worked for another country's spy service, former DREAD operatives said.
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Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the Oversight Committee when asked if the White House should comply with Cummings' request on security clearances.
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Kelly has been conducting a review after questions were raised about temporary clearances following abuse allegations against former White House aide Rob Porter.
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She said the commissioners and some staffers should seek security clearances to be able to hear more about investigations that contain sensitive information.
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"Now we want to come along, get security clearances and participate in investigations that we absolutely have no expertise in whatsoever," Hunter said.
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Kushner is one of reportedly dozens of White House officials who have been operating with temporary clearances during Trump's first year in office.
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Many of San Diego's veterans start companies that function as contractors and suppliers to the military because of their contacts and security clearances.
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The new report is vague about the outcome of the 91 security violations and how, if at all, they affected individuals' security clearances.
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President Donald Trump is turning security clearances — and whether current and former officials get to keep them — into a reality show-style game.
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EXCLUSIVE: Ivanka Trump says she and her husband Jared Kushner received no special treatment from her father when obtaining their top security clearances.
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ET: Charles Payne is filling in for Brian; Dave Nelson on looming Trump trade wars and the economy; Allen West on the latest with North Korea, Iran and Trump-security clearances controversy; Chris Stirewalt on the upcoming midterm elections, Trump mulling revoking security clearances of former top security officials; Rep Cathy McMorris Rogers on the midterms and tax reform 2.0.
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But White House adviser Kellyanne Conway told an NBC interviewer on Friday that Trump has said he has "absolute authority" to order security clearances.
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In April, CNN reported that Trump granted the couple clearances after both Kelly and former White House counsel Don McGahn refused to do so.
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According to CNN, at least two dozen of the staffers operating with interim clearances in November had joined the Trump administration on day one.
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First, why is it taking so long for high-level members of Trump's team to secure these clearances after nearly a year in office?
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Sanders, who said Trump is "exploring the mechanisms" to remove the security clearances, made reference to Brennan's treason comment in explaining the president's threat.
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According to the New York Times, dozens of White House staffers were granted unrestricted access to top secret information, despite lacking permanent security clearances.
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Granular instructions, like which lane the car is in, the traffic rules that apply to that lane, and even overhead clearances and road elevation.
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Get ready to ring in Independence Day in the most patriotic way possible — because what's more American than using a holiday for doorbuster clearances?
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Kushner and other White House staffers learned last week that their "top secret" clearances were being downgraded to "secret," Politico and CNN reported Tuesday.
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"We will not allow rogue anonymous sources with security clearances to sell out our country any longer," he said in the August press conference.
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Without the PKI certificates, even officials with top-secret security clearances are locked out of the computer networks on which classified information is shared.
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The White House overruled career government officials' recommendations that at least 30 Trump appointees not receive top secret clearances, according to NBC News. Rep.
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The panel also discussed the sometimes-arduous process of securing the security clearances necessary to complete government work — a procedure some said slowed work.
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China, the world's biggest coal importer and consumer, has previously imposed imports restrictions to support domestic miners, tightening customs clearances in December last year.
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"This is monumentally stupid political theater," Bradley Moss, a lawyer who specializes in security clearances, told The Hill in an email at the time.
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But the companies have previously said the agrichemicals businesses have little overlap, and any asset sales required to get regulatory clearances would be minor.
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Brennan, one of Trump's most outspoken critics in the intelligence community, suggested the White House failed to follow the proper process for stripping clearances.
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In at least one of the calls, he cited his generous donations as a reason to get the clearances he needed to move forward.
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If anything, having a security clearance is a hindrance, because government agencies review and approve any commentary authored by those who hold such clearances.
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Schmidt called the development a "massive abuse of power" and a sign that the Trump administration is actively misusing its authority over security clearances.
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And when employees get tired of waiting for their clearances and quit, defense contractors must put time and money into a new hiring cycle.
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The government contractors who build the aircraft, submarines, weapons systems and information technologies on which our national security depends can't work without security clearances.
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Murphy said that the capital will go towards putting Virtual Incision's robots through FDA clearances, then ramping up manufacturing and conducting additional clinical studies.
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Trump blamed the White House controversy over security clearances on a "broken system" that he said was already in place when he took over.
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The New York Times reported in February that Trump ordered Kushner be given top-secret security clearances despite concerns raised by the intelligence community.
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Cummings signaled Tuesday that he wants to question Kline about Kushner and Ivanka Trump's clearances but insisted he was not "zeroing in" on them.
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Kline reportedly told the committee that upon reviewing the clearances his subordinates had raised concerns about, he decided they did not pose security risks.
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Perhaps most impressively, Hungate convinced more than 21992 freight carriers to adopt a single system called eAcceptance that's designed to process cargo export clearances.
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Former administration officials can maintain security clearances in part to offer counsel to their successors, but Brennan has not been advising the current administration.
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In the affidavit, she describes herself as a government employee with multiple security clearances related to her work for the Treasury and the Mint.
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Secret is a physically isolated cloud with a Department of Defense Impact Level 5 (IL-5) security clearance, one of the highest security clearances.
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But the EU is unlikely to have completed its investigation by then, throwing the deal into doubt as it is conditional on regulatory clearances.
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While several questioned the wisdom of Trump's decision to strip clearances from a persistent critic, they said Brennan's chances of success are exceedingly unlikely.
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Behind the scenes, there has reportedly been drama in the personnel security division of the Executive Office of the President, which handles security clearances.
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According to reports from NBC News and CNN this week, about 100 White House administrations lacked long-term security clearances as of November 2017.
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According to McClatchy, the backlog includes about 85033,000 cases, though only about 300,000 of those involve people applying for clearances for the first time.
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"We have a new executive team leading our work toward obtaining F.D.A. clearances, building commercial partnerships and pursuing publications in scientific journals," she said.
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President Trump President Trump may strip security clearances from half a dozen former national security officials because they've criticized him over the Russia investigation.
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Former high-ranking officials in defense, intelligence, diplomacy and law enforcement usually maintain their clearances to advise those still in government, former officials said.
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The department also is working to give state election officials security clearances so they can view classified assessments of dangers to the election system.
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Former national security officials maintain their security clearances in part to be of assistance to new administrations for consultation or elaboration on historical context.
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Top priorities are examining Trump's handling of security clearances and top aide and son-in-law Jared Kushner's use of a private email system.
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Kushner has also had to file updates on his disclosure forms for White House security clearances at least three times to fix incorrect information.
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Most of the time, we don't see many problems with White House staffers receiving clearances because these people are typically the best and brightest.
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Doubtful. And don't try to tell me he doesn't have the security clearances to access a top secret archive similar to the Scarif facility.
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After serving the nation most use security clearances (and their trustworthiness) to contribute to national defense or to help US industries maintain an advantage.
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We had some very critical people who did not have security clearances who could not go, one of the officials quoted by Reuters said.
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"We had some very critical people who did not have security clearances who could not go," one of the officials quoted by Reuters said.
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A classified version will be shown to lawmakers and others with security clearances and a public version will be given to the news media.
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" The former intelligence leaders added in their statement that "decisions on security clearances should be based on national security concerns and not political views.
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At least two dozen of the staffers with interim clearances started working on the first day of the Trump administration, according to the information.
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Aides who previously operated on "top secret/sensitive compartmented information" interim clearances saw their access changed to "secret," a classification for less sensitive material.
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Elijah Cummings House wants documents on McEntee's security clearances VA could lead way for nation on lower drug pricing MORE (D-Md.) on Thursday.
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Gowdy separately sent a letter on Wednesday to FBI Director Christopher Wray seeking clarity on how the bureau investigates and issues interim security clearances.
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The Washington Post reports the service members could lose their security clearances or face a court-martial if found guilty of the improper contact.
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First, CNN learned that at least 21 White House officials didn't have full security clearances in November 2160 -- a year after Donald Trump's election.
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The memo does not specify the names of the individuals whose security clearances were initially denied -- only to be overruled by the White House.
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A CNN report on Friday that 30 to 40 senior White House and other top officials still lacked full security clearances exacerbated the disarray.
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The move comes as cities across India are experiencing heavy smog, as crop clearances and falling temperatures bring an annual plunge in air quality.
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At least 24 of the staffers who possessed interim security clearances began working on the first day of the Trump administration in January 2017.
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Aides who previously operated on "top secret/sensitive compartmentalized information" interim clearances saw their access changed to "secret," a classification for less sensitive material.
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And if officials don't have security clearances, it is impossible to promptly share threats between the federal government and the states that run elections.
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Shortly after that trip, Mexico finalized pest-and-pathogen import clearances to allow shipments of wheat from Argentina, which until then had been forbidden.
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The company made attempts to lure talent from defense contractors and other companies, while there were numerous job openings for people with security clearances.
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But decisions on clearances for White House staff, though typically keeping FBI recommendations in mind, are largely left up to the White House itself.
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"As has always been our policy, we do not comment on security clearances," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.
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In the event of no deal, Britain-based dealers who operate in the European Union will immediately require customs clearances from two different authorities.
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As Haberman pointed out during the interview, the president undoubtedly has the legal authority to order officials to give clearances to whomever he pleases.
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Former security officials, regardless of their political affiliation, tend to keep their security clearances to help consult with the White House in times of crisis.
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It is unlikely Petraeus would be able to get the necessary security clearances while he is on probation, a term due to end in April.
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A president's prerogative And in any case, experts point out, the President has broad authority to grant security clearances -- even to those with legal challenges.
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The president is exploring the mechanisms to remove security clearance because they have politicized and in some cases monetized their public service and security clearances.
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The committee recommended Tuesday that DHS expedite security clearances for appropriate officials and asked the intelligence community to work faster to declassify information whenever possible.
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Kline allegedly overruled career-level staff who advised against granting officials security clearances, after red flags were raised about things found in their background checks.
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On April 2, the committee voted to subpoena Carl Kline, a former White House official, over a probe into security clearances granted by the administration.
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The staffers subject to the downgrade had been operating on interim security clearances, but now will not have access to the government's most sensitive information.
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Microsoft and AWS have higher clearances to handle government data than Google, and AWS has long been viewed by competition as the Pentagon's favored contender.
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For those who have held or currently hold security clearances, Comey's judgment -- not about the facts, but the interpretation of those facts -- is particularly odious.
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The gun shop says Pais passed two background clearances by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
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The plant has been shut for more than 50 days and had been ordered to stay closed until at least June 6, pending environmental clearances.
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Another headwind for Australian coal exports has been a reported go-slow on customs clearances at some Chinese ports, although this has been officially denied.
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At least two of the former officials, who have served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, do not currently have security clearances: Comey and McCabe.
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It also said it had all merger clearances and regulatory approvals and all necessary banking approvals as have most banking approvals for Dubai-based UASC.
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Since the overhaul of the resettlement program began, thousands have had their medical clearances and admissions approvals expire, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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The idea was to continuously evaluate information about people with security clearances, including "all kinds of sources" such as financial and travel records, he said.
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Watch: Inside Brazil's Biggest Prison Beauty Pageant Logistically, Kinney had to deal with prison clearances, lesson planning, teacher schedules, and a six-hour drive home.
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The president has the legal authority to issue clearances to anyone, unilaterally, though as a matter of propriety it is usually not done so directly.
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The power lies in the executive branch to decide to revoke individuals' security clearances or deem that they no longer need to know classified information.
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Comey's remarks also appeared to raise the question of whether Clinton's aides could be denied security clearances if she wins the White House this November.
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Blackmail also might explain why Trump threatened former U.S. intelligence officials with loss of their security clearances for being critical of his dealings with Russia.
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"If there are more like Brennan, he has every right to," Giuliani said in regard to whether or not Trump would revoke more security clearances.
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Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency and the CIA under two presidents, discussing government security clearances (and his new book), and Sen.
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Most Americans say former government officials with security clearances should be able to make political statements in public, according to a new American Barometer survey.
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When they leave government, national security officials routinely maintain their security clearances, partly to consult with those who replace them about ongoing situations or issues.
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"In a normal world, we wouldn't be talking about security clearances, Jared Kushner would have been fired about four hours ago," Murphy said on MSNBC.
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Knorr-Bremse has offered 5.53 billion Swedish crowns ($630 million) for Swedish brake systems maker Haldex but is still waiting for clearances from competition authorities.
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Newbold told the committee last month that officials in the Trump administration overruled her and others' recommendations not to grant security clearances to 25 individuals.
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The White House has argued that the committee is overstepping its legitimate oversight authorities with the investigation into security clearances that Cummings launched in January.
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Traders said the storage clearances were also in part due to anticipation of large volumes coming into Asia from other regions in the coming weeks.
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In November, the White House called Kushner's situation "completely normal" and cited a backlog of requests for security clearances as a reason for the holdup.
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Several White House officials with interim security clearances had been downgraded in February, chief of staff John Kelly wrote in a memo at the time.
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Since then the company has received two clearances that it can safely resume full operations, which the third party will assess from a technical viewpoint.
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But with senior aides losing their security clearances, and rumors swirling about even more resignations, there's no clear indication that the Trump administration is stabilizing.
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The Trump White House said on Monday that it was considering revoking the security clearances of several former intelligence officers who have criticized the administration.
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Omarosa: A day after losing the news cycle to the security clearances story, Omarosa Manigault Newman snatched it back by releasing a new audio recording.
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Security clearances are far more important for former midlevel officials joining the private sector, though they do matter to some who served in senior ranks.
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"Once the final creative was presented for approval, it was reviewed to ensure it met our standard integrity clearances," Mr. Tidwell said in a statement.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday the administration was weighing taking clearances away from James Comey, Andrew McCabe, James Brennan, and more.
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They won't share direct quotes from him, because other Gitmo lawyers have had their clearances suspended or revoked for sharing too much from their client.
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She also said the White House had stopped, for a time, the practice of reinvestigating certain applicants who had received security clearances in the past.
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Trump said last week he was considering withdrawing clearances for other former high-ranking officials as well as Bruce Ohr, a current Justice Department official.
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The Obama administration appeared to pursue few cases involving duplicate identities, unless they involved egregious wrongdoing or naturalized citizens who had received government security clearances.
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How serious is President Trump's break with protocol, which has always protected security clearances from being used as chips in a game of political poker?
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A House of Representatives committee is investigating whether some staffers in Trump's White House received high-level security clearances over the objections of career officials.
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Those without permanent security clearances included Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and senior advisor, and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior advisor.
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State officials have complained that they have not received timely threat information and face long waits for security clearances in order to receive classified briefings.
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Trump's strike against Brennan and his threats against the clearances of other mostly vocal former officials, fall well within his power as President, most agree.
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The most serious is loss of security clearances, the AP reported, which could complicate Clinton's naming of a national security team if she becomes president.
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The White House told The Hill that it does not comment on security clearances, but pointed to Kelly's statement on the matter from last week.
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Former top-ranking officials have frequently in the past kept their security clearances so that the White House can consult with them on important topics.
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The White House imposed a ban on new interim security clearances last fall for any employees in the executive office of the president, Politico reports.
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The project, which needs Beijing's approvals including environmental clearances, is likely to start up around 2020, according to two sources with knowledge of the plan.
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CNN reported last week that as many as 100 White House staffers were working with temporary security clearances as late as November of last year.
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It is unlikely citizens without security clearances will ever know the full impact of what Manning's leak did to US policymaking at home and abroad.
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Eventually she worked her way up to adjudications manager, a job that required her to help make determinations about the security clearances of administration employees.
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There are three levels of security clearances corresponding to sensitivity of information the individual needs to access for their job: confidential, secret, and top secret.
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The White House has also balked at having a former security official named Carl Kline testify about the procedures for handing out dubious security clearances.
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The president is exploring the mechanisms to remove security clearance because they&aposve politicized and in some cases monetize their public service and security clearances, making baseless accusations of improper contact with Russia or being influenced by Russia against the president is extremely inappropriate, and the fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges provides inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence.
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Taking security clearances from those who have professed to be actively hindering the president's lawful conduct of the country's business is a sad, but necessary, step.
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The conversation took place in February 2018, around the same time questions were being raised about the status of various White House staffers and security clearances.
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We&aposre the only ones with the -- with the classification that -- with the with these clearances that matter to get to the bottom of the situation.
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According to the New York Times and CNN, the president stepped in to grant Kushner and Ivanka Trump security clearances after he was advised against it.
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But even after the U.N. grants clearances, all commercial ships have to get approval from a Saudi-managed warship stationed 61 km west of Hodeida port.
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"Our nation's security depends on every individual with security clearances to honor the trust placed in them," US Attorney Eileen M. Decker said in a statement.
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High-ranking government officials sometimes retain security clearances after leaving office to advise their successors as needed, and some private-sector companies can also require them.
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For the past few years, governments have been gradually remaking the airport, transforming the single security check into a system of tiered clearances and background checks.
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And by that I mean a lot of these senior people get to keep their security clearances so that the can consult within people with government.
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Speaking on September 21th, she again avoided mentioning the Rohingyas by name, and flatly claimed that no violence or village clearances had occurred since September 0003th.
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WILLIAMS: Let me explain to you that, in fact, none of these people -- two of them don&apost even have security clearances on the list, right?
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A hyperloop, she said, will run into the same challenges of any other large infrastructure project, including funding, right of way, environmental permits, approvals and clearances.
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"Our nation's security depends on every individual with security clearances to honor the trust placed in them," U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker said in a statement.
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Her wanton abuse of government protocol proves that she is not qualified for the security clearances that come with being secretary of state — let alone president.
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More than 100 White House staffers lacked permanent security clearances as of last November, CNN reports, and its unclear whether those officials have gained clearance since.
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In November of last year, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, White House counsel Don McGahn, and social media director Dan Scavino were operating with only interim clearances.
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Administrative sanctions could result in a loss of security clearances Clinton left her role as Secretary of State in 2013, as did many of her aides.
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Like the prosecutors, defense lawyers who practice in the national security trials at Guantánamo must have top-secret compartmentalized security clearances to work on the cases.
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White House chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE announced earlier this month that the White House would review the administration's handling of temporary security clearances.
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The network said Trump had asked the White House if he could obtain such clearances for his children Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr., along with Kushner.
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Several said the flap over security clearances show that Kushner is in over his head, suggesting he only got his job because of his family connections.
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There will be inquiries into White House security clearances, the politicization of the Census, the acting attorney general's tenure at the Justice Department, and much more.
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Many had already sat through interviews, obtained medical clearances and turned in security paperwork, and some had waited two years for the jobs, according to Devex.
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"The President is exploring the mechanisms to remove security clearance because they politicize, and in some cases monetize, their public service and security clearances," Sanders said.
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Some voters might ask why former national security officials need security clearances anyway -- since many of them take lucrative jobs in the security and media sectors.
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Two of the people on the list -- fired former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe -- no longer even have such clearances.
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"The Executive branch also has significant discretion when determining whether to grant security clearances and whether a particular person may have access to information," he added.
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But Brendan was ball-retention obsessed, banning long clearances, which caused panic under pressure, particularly when you've just pitched up from the less intense Ligue 1.
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THE TOPLINE: A Pentagon agency gave preliminary security clearances that were later revoked to contractors with criminal or otherwise problematic histories, according to a new report.
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Retired judges have been vetted before so the process for obtaining security clearances wouldn't take as long as it would for new appointees, the letter said.
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Trump is still considering pulling the security clearances of several others, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former national security adviser Susan Rice.
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Missing payments on debts could create delays in securing or renewing security clearances, and could even disqualify Agents from continuing to serve in some cases. 2.
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They also recommend that the executive branch consider mandatory polygraph tests for political appointees with top secret security clearances who are not confirmed by the Senate.
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And Mehta's ruling is narrow, it just deals with the Mazars subpoena and doesn't touch other battles over White House security clearances and Mueller-related testimony.
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Media outlets, including the Washington Post, speculated that this would affect Kushner and potentially dozens of other White House aides still lacking long-term security clearances.
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Two sources familiar with the congressional investigation said that two of the senior officials whose clearances Newbold said were initially denied were Ivanka Trump and Kushner.
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The request came after questions about how some White House officials, including the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump, obtained security clearances.
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At least 25 people got security clearances from Trump officials after career civil servants denied them for "disqualifying issues," a White House whistle-blower told Congress.
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Now, post-Porter, in what looks like an attempt at redemption, Kelly wants to take on Jared Kushner on the issue of White House security clearances.
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According to Politico, the email says the White House personnel security office announced it would not grant further interim security clearances, and would deny pending requests.
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This system has operated under the assumption that appointees are "innocent until proven guilty," and assumes they'll be approved for full clearances unless problems are found.
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As for Ms. Rice's security clearance, General McMaster's allies noted that he renewed such clearances for all former national security advisers and former presidents months ago.
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A "surge" of FBI agents have been tasked with processing a backlog of background investigations into Trump administration officials seeking security clearances, law enforcement sources said.
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The departures have been particularly pronounced in recent weeks -- especially with a focus on how many White House staff have had trouble getting permanent security clearances.
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States can now have three election officials with security clearances to receive classified information, and DHS provides "one day read-ins" about threats for senior officials.
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Ivanka Trump, the Republican president's elder daughter, told ABC News in a February interview that she and Kushner did not receive special treatment regarding their clearances.
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This accusation contradicts Ivanka Trump's recent denial to ABC that her dad had "no involvement" in getting security clearances for her or her husband, Jared Kushner.
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The FDA has been accelerating its clearances for software-driven products like the atrial fibrillation detection algorithm on the Apple Watch and the ActiGraph activity monitors.
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August 20, 2018 What precisely are security clearances, where do they come from, and how does one factor into a recent decision by the U.S. president?
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Richard Shelby on Wednesday similarly downplayed the President's decision and questioned why former high-ranking officials would maintain security clearances once they have left government service.
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The deadline for stripping officials of their interim clearances was Friday, though it wasn't clear by late in the day what specific action had been taken.
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If Trump agrees with sit down for an interview with Mueller, the topics that would be discussed would require his legal team to have security clearances.
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Also, as recommended by Senator Moynihan, Congress should establish an independent executive branch office to oversee the revocation of clearances that assures due process to individuals.
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She would sometimes muse that conversation — even with people who had top security clearances — would be simpler if she could just join a Special Operations unit.
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Ninety-nine percent of people with clearances go through the same process and have the same guidelines, but the White House is a very different situation.
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Trump is refusing to cooperate with a series of investigations on issues ranging from his tax returns to his Washington hotel and his children's security clearances.
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Most security clearances involve jobs at the White House, Defense, State, Homeland Security, Energy and Justice departments, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.
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As the Times explained Friday, he has the authority to grant security clearances to anyone, though as a matter of propriety it is usually not done directly.
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As chairman of the intelligence committee, enjoying among the highest of security clearances, the chairman would clearly be committing a crime if he publicly disclosed classified information.
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" Clapper, who stepped down as director of national intelligence before Trump took office last year, called revoking security clearances "just a very, very petty thing to do.
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People with money problems, as Mallory reportedly had, are especially coveted for their desperation, which makes them less likely to get security clearances from the American government.
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Here's a tweet from November 16, 2016, shortly after he won the presidency:Oddly enough, his kids (and son-in-law) don't have permanent top level security clearances.
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In the last 16 months, UNVIM has processed 685 clearances and granted vessels the right to sail to Houthi-held ports about 80 percent of the time.
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Midland, Michigan-based Dow Chemical says the proposed deal is likely to close in the second half of 2016, subject to customary regulatory clearances and stockholder approval.
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The Oversight Committee is probing the White House's issuance of security clearances to Jared Kushner and other officials, the Stormy Daniels "hush money" payments, and other controversies.
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Trump has also floated the idea of removing the clearances of other top intelligence and law enforcement officials, many of whom are vocal critics of the administration.
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Many other migratory species face problems from man-made factors including dams, roads, forest clearances and wind turbines that can kill birds that fly into their blades.
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The clearances of the 18th and 703th centuries, when rich landowners forcibly evicted poor tenants to make way for sheep farming, loom large in the cultural imagination.
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Still, regulators could strip a security company such as Symantec of certain clearances if they felt Broadcom ownership posed risks that could make a deal less appealing.
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Security clearance fallout The House Oversight Committee is also looking into questions about security clearances granted to top White House aides over the objections of career officials.
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China barely allowed any coal imports in December last year, delaying customs clearances in an effort to meet a 2018 import quota restricting shipments to 2017 levels.
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" Paul added that he would go "one step beyond" the White House and remove top-secret clearances from all retired CIA agents and officers "of any stripe.
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When some Jakarta slums were razed in March and April, the FPI encouraged those evicted to form small "pop-up" groups to demonstrate against clearances, Bamukmin said.
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He&aposs actually responding to the collusion -- the collusion accusations by saying you&aposre colluding too, and I&aposm gonna -- like, I&aposm taking away your clearances.
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Gowdy later sent the White House a broader request asking about the extent to which officials had been working for extended periods with only temporary security clearances.
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Cummings sent Gowdy a letter last week noting that Gowdy had sent three letters to the White House seeking detailed information about its handling of security clearances.
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"Ghettoside has been accused of being too reductive by hanging so much on the narrow issue of homicide clearances, which is a fair criticism," Leovy told me.
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Film clearances are exclusive deals signed between large movie theater chains and film studios to limit the number of theaters allowed to screen certain movies, especially blockbusters.
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CHINA ISSUES Another headwind for Australian coal exports has been a reported go-slow on customs clearances at some Chinese ports, although this has been officially denied.
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Warner told the intelligence directors the security clearances system needs reforms since it is "hampering your recruitment and retention and costing us millions of dollars in inefficiency."
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Federal security clearances: The president may soon sign an executive order to transfer the government's security clearance program from the Office of Personnel Management to the Pentagon.
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To facilitate cooperation, the bill would give priority to security clearances for state election officials, who would then be legally allowed to receive threat information from DHS.
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Former President Obama later allowed enlistment for young immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, causing additional security clearances to be added to MAVNI.
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"Even after security clearances are granted, access to classified information is limited to the extent that it is required to fulfill designated duties and responsibilities," Cummings wrote.
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Multiple reports said Trump was interested in applying for security clearances, which would likely give them access to secure communications technology, travel schedules and Secret Service procedures.
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While much should be done, there is an obvious place to start: Committee members should have a dedicated staffer—with the necessary clearances—working on intelligence matters.
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"The President is exploring these mechanisms to remove security clearance because they've politicized and in some cases monetized their public service and their security clearances," Sanders said.
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Former intelligence officials typically maintain high-level security clearances after they leave their posts -- in some cases, they provide counsel to current officials during times of turnover.
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The Defense secretary would also have to brief the committee on his plans to expedite security clearances, which has been an issue for industry and within government.
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"In terms of security clearances, that's something I can't comment on from this position at the State Department," Heather Nauert said on "America's Newsroom" on Fox News.
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The rules for security clearances — including challenging decisions to strip them — were signed by President Clinton in 1995 in the wake of the Aldrich Ames spy scandal.
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"That seems an unreasonably long period of time to post or get access to something that's already past the clearances," the judge said to the administration lawyer.
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Many of the tasks — including providing "independent reviews, recommendations and solutions for external nuclear weapon surety policies" and inspections, among other things — require top government security clearances.
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The saga over Rob Porter, who resigned as staff secretary at the White House last week, has left broader questions about security clearances hanging in the air.
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Swetnick is a Washington, D.C., resident who currently holds clearances with the Department of the Treasury, U.S. Mint and the Internal Revenue Service, according to her declaration.
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"I think he's just trolling people, honestly," the speaker said when Trump threatened to pull top government security clearances of people who were critical of the administration.
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Chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE said earlier this month that the administration will change its policy on the temporary clearances, cutting off some of them.
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Attorneys representing clients in Washington frequently are required to seek security clearances in matters ranging from Hillary Clinton's Benghazi hearings to employment disputes involving undercover CIA agents.
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Mr. Kelly said that he had been the one to bring order to the process over security clearances at the White House when he arrived last summer.
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Very presentable and capable individuals — sometimes even those with existing security clearances — are sometimes disqualified by the rigorous personnel investigations that are normally undertaken for cabinet positions.
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In April, House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings said his committee was told that senior officials overruled concerns raised about 25 individuals whose security clearances were initially denied.
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For example, she noted that the inspector general had flagged a handful of cases that involved people who had obtained security clearances or government jobs after naturalizing.
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The film briefly appeared on videotape, issued by HarmonyVision in 1983, before separate clearances for home video were de rigueur, but it quickly went out of circulation.
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Republicans, in their memo, stressed that Ms. Newbold had no firsthand knowledge of why Mr. Kline ultimately elected to grant the clearances to the two senior officials.
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According to the Democrats, Ms. Newbold also asserted that the Trump administration had made changes to security protocols that made it easier for individuals to get clearances.
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Former high-ranking officials in defense, intelligence, diplomacy and law enforcement usually maintain their clearances when they leave the government, in part to advise those still serving.
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There were frantic clearances on balls into the burly Spanish forward Diego Costa, but mostly Iran's defense was compact and organized, snuffing out attacks before they began.
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Workers at the Spiez lab need security clearances and most are Swiss nationals, though some are foreign fellows or visiting researchers, according to Mr. Bucher, the spokesman.
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Political debates over White House security clearances, immigration reform and the House Intelligence Committee's latest memo on the Russia probe are likely to be covered as well.
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Agents recognized the implications; many intelligence officials, after years of low-paying government work, rely on their security clearances to obtain private-sector jobs when they retire.
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Dozens of aides have seen their top secret security clearances stripped and advisers are at odds over the decision to impose new tariffs on steel and aluminum.
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It noted public statements by the defendants and revelations about meetings and contacts with Russians that various associates of Mr. Trump concealed when applying for security clearances.
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Ultimately, better and more widely available data on murder clearances is needed to shed light on the relationship between solving more murders and preventing them from occurring.
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It launched John Kelly's crackdown on interim security clearances, which last week ensnared Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, along with dozens of other White House officials.
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Nielsen said 20 state officials — out of a possible 150 — had received clearances to date, saying they were working with other agencies to speed up the process.
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According to the Globe, officials in some states have begun applying for security clearances so they can be briefed on classified information and potential threats to elections.
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Both Ivanka Trump and Kushner were operating on interim security clearances until she was granted top clearance in May, the same time Kushner had his clearance restored.
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As a recent graduate of the University of Chicago, I have witnessed students who support BDS obtain internships at the State Department and even obtain security clearances.
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Mr. Freedman's replacement, Marshall Billingslea, a former Pentagon and State Department official, arrived in the West Wing with six people, only two of whom had security clearances.
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Kelly also directed his staff to discontinue top level security clearances for any staffer whose background investigation or adjudication process has been pending since before last June.
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The committee voted to authorize subpoenas related to two issues — White House security clearances and the US Census — on Tuesday afternoon, escalating Democrats' fight against administrative stonewalling.
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And there's a problem long term if we have dozens of people acting on interim security clearances, viewing classified material, handling classified material, and getting those briefings.
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While Suu Kyi is not directly in charge of the military — known as the Tatmadaw — a UN investigator has accused her of "complicity" in the military clearances.
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They granted few interim clearances that received the full vetting process last year as a result of its investigation backlog that is clogged with roughly 700,000 cases.
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