Washington – A congressional committee is giving the White House until Monday to voluntarily turn over documents related to White House security clearances.
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The deadline from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform comes amid questions about the Trump administration’s truthfulness regarding how senior adviser Jared Kushner got his high-level security clearance.
Chairman Elijah Cummings writes: “I am now writing a final time to request your voluntary cooperation with this investigation.” If the White House doesn’t respond, Cummings could issue subpoenas for documents and interviews.
Career security officials had recommended against granting a clearance to Kushner, the president’s son-in-law. The New York Times reported that President Donald Trump ordered officials to grant the clearance, and that then-chief of staff John Kelly documented his concerns about the process in an internal memorandum.
Kushner omitted a lot of significant information from his application for a security clearance, and he ended up having to amend it multiple times to add in foreign contacts. Not one contact. Not a few. More than 100 foreign contacts on his initial clearance application.
That application warned of perjury.
Why wasn’t Kushner charged?
Why did the security apparatus reject his application(s)?
Why did General Kelly oppose his security clearance?
Why did Ivanka lie about this?
Why did TRump lie about this?
This stinks.
After they issue a subpoena then Congress has no ability to enforce it – it is up to the Executive Branch and Justice dept, which they will not do if they do not want to give Congress the info.