Thread by @Monaheart1229

Breaking: This is not surprising, but when you consider where Jared is this wk, with info @ our NatSec that by our security standards he isn't qualified to have, it is very dangerous. It is deeply concerning. #ThursdayThoughts
nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/…

2-"WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials and the White House’s top lawyer, four people briefed on the

3-"matter said. Mr. Trump’s decision in May so troubled senior administration officials that at least one, the White House chief of staff at the time, John F. Kelly, wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been “ordered” to give Mr. Kushner the top-secret clearance

4-"The White House counsel at the time, Donald F. McGahn II, also wrote an internal memo outlining the concerns that had been raised about Mr. Kushner — including by the C.I.A. — and how Mr. McGahn had recommended that he not be given a top-secret clearance.

5-"The disclosure of the memos contradicts statements made by the president, who told The New York Times in January in an Oval Office interview that he had no role in his son-in-law receiving his clearance. Mr. Kushner’s lawyer, Abbe D. Lowell, also said that at the time the

6-"clearance was granted last year that his client went through a standard process. Ivanka Trump, the president’s eldest daughter and Mr. Kushner’s wife, said the same thing three weeks ago.." ~Excerpts, NYT, 2/28/19

7-"It is not known precisely what factors led to the problems with Mr. Kushner’s security clearance. Officials had raised questions about his own and his family’s real estate business’s ties to foreign governments and investors, and about initially unreported contacts he had with

8-"foreigners. The issue also generated criticism of Mr. Trump for having two family members serve in official capacities in the West Wing. Mr. Kushner has spent this week abroad working on a Middle East peace plan.

9-"Among his meetings was one with Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia..." ~Maggie Haberman, NYT

10- This speaks to concerns that go as far as Kushner's inv with Israeli PM Netanyahu, who was indicted today. " The full scope of intelligence officials’ concerns about Mr. Kushner is not known. But the clearance had been held up in part over questions from the F.B.I. and the

11-"C.I.A. about his foreign and business contacts, including those related to Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Russia, according to multiple people familiar with the events.." NYT