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| Jared Kushner has security clearance downgraded, according to government officials | Jared Kushner has security clearance downgraded, according to government officials |
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| Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and the White House adviser, has been denied access to top-secret intelligence after having his security clearance downgraded. | Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and the White House adviser, has been denied access to top-secret intelligence after having his security clearance downgraded. |
| Also charged with brokering peace between Israel and Palestinians, Mr Kushner has had his interim security clearance downgraded from top secret to secret, along with a host of others, according to officials. | Also charged with brokering peace between Israel and Palestinians, Mr Kushner has had his interim security clearance downgraded from top secret to secret, along with a host of others, according to officials. |
| All White House aides who had been working on an interim clearance were informed of the change via an internal memo, Politico reported. The document was not signed by Chief of Staff John Kelly, however. | |
| The staffers, all operating on a Top Secret/Secret Compartmentalised Information (SCI) clearance, were taken down to the Secret designation. | |
| The SCI designation meant staffers had access to information that came from sensitive intelligence sources and had to be "walled off," according to the news outlet. | |
| Mr Kushner had been attending Mr Trump's daily briefings from the US intelligence committee, but will no longer have access to those. | |
| The memo appeared to be in response to facts unveiled during the scandal involving former White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter. | |
| Mr Porter resigned from his position earlier this month after it was revealed that his two former wives were accusing him of alleged physical abuse and that was why Mr Porter's permanent security clearance had not gone through as yet. | |
| He was one of several White House staff who had not received their permanent clearance but who still had fairly unfettered access to secret information. | |
| Mr Trump actually has to right to grant Mr Kushner permanent clearance and it remains unclear why he has not done so yet. | |
| On 23 February, the same day of the clearance memo, Mr Trump said he would leave the decision up to Mr Kelly. | |
| Mr Kushner had repeatedly hit roadblocks on his way to obtaining the permanent security clearance - the former New York real estate broker had to re-file his paperwork multiple times. | |
| The chief of the National Investigations Bureau Charles Phalen told a House committee back in October 2017 that he had "never seen that level of mistakes" made on the form before. | |
| Altogether the form included four addenda and well over 100 errors - whether by omission or mistakenly entered information. | |
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