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Congress quietly removes security clearance process from White House and transfers it to the Pentagon

Quietly as a mouse pissing on cotton. If it had happened in the Obama WH? Sound of chimps banging cymbals. Many, many of them.

But now we live in Hypocritistan.

Source: Raw Story

Published 4 hours ago

on July 25, 2019
By David Cay Johnston, DC Report @ Raw Story

Congress Forced Move After Putin’s Friend in the Oval Office Interfered in Clearance Process for Jared and Ivanka

The Trump Administration, after making a mess of security clearances for federal workers and contractors, is about to hand off to the Pentagon the biggest change in the clearance system in a half-century.

Concern about the security clearance system is not new, but the Government Accountability Office documents serious deterioration since Trump took office. The GAO is the investigative arm of Congress.

The Trump Administration did such a poor job with security clearances that in 2018 the GAO put the entire security clearance system on its High-Risk List.

That’s not surprising given Donald Trump’s continual attacks on our national intelligence agencies as he praises the integrity of Vladimir Putin.


Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/congress-quietly-removes-security-clearance-process-from-white-house-and-transfers-it-to-the-pentagon/