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Polly Sigh
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Former White House Official Carl Kline, who granted Jared Kushner a security clearance, overriding career officials' warning not to do so. The White House insisted Kline bring a WH lawyer [!!] with him, Cummings refused so now Kline is refusing to comply with their subpoena.
Carl Kline, who greenlit Kushner’s security clearance, will not to comply with Congress’ subpoena. Cummings threatened to hold him in contempt of Congress if Kline refused... Let's see if he does.
CONTEMPT! Chairman Cummings plans to schedule a contempt vote for Carl Kline for defying subpoena to testify on security clearances –– which Kline granted to Jared Kushner and Trump admin staffers, overriding objections from intelligence officials.
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Polly Sigh
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NEWS: Trump told @costareports that House Dems should be satisfied with the Mueller report and he opposes having aides testify. "There is no reason to go any further, and especially in Congress where it’s very partisan."

Trump doesn't understanding...anything.
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Trump says he's opposed to current and former WH aides testifying before Congress and that WH Counsel has not “made a final, final decision" on asserting executive privilege but they already waived it so the final, final decision HAS been made.
#Maddow wapo.st/2Gvjw2C?tid=ss…
In which, a lifelong criminal says he doesn't want WITNESSES, who will most assuredly incriminate him, testifying in a hearing which could finally lead to his demise. Shocking.
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Polly Sigh
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A Saudi-based network of 5,000 pro-Trump Twitter bots that railed against the “Russiagate hoax” shortly after the Mueller report release were removed from Twitter. The same bots also pushed messages backing Kushner's pal, MBS.
by @oneunderscore__ #Maddow nbcnews.to/2IPkzNH
Saudi Arabia and their contractors have conducted extensive influence campaigns on Twitter in recent years. Former MBS advisor, al-Qahtani, is known as the “Minister of the Flies” for hiring bot and troll armies to swarm on detractors of the govt.
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Where there's a "troll farm," Cambridge Analytica or its parent company SCL won't be far behind. SCL [which received $15M from Robert Mercer in 2014] worked for the Saudi govt in 2014 and recently helped shape Crown Prince MBS's "reform efforts."
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Polly Sigh
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At the #TIME100Summit, Jared Kushner downplays Russian interference in the 2016 election to @ByBrianBennett, describing it as “a few Facebook ads,” saying it was a “terrible thing” but not “impactful.”

Stunning how Kushner lies with such ease.
When asked by @ByBrianBennett about Saudi Prince MBS' involvement in Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, Jared Kushner, who's rumored to be "in MBS' pocket," says he's “not going to dispute US Inteligence” and claims he advised MBS to “be as transparent as possible.”
#TIME100Summit @TIME
"More than 5,000 Saudi government backed, pro-Trump Twitter bots railed against the “Russiagate hoax” shortly after the release of the Mueller Report last week." nbcnews.to/2IPkzNH

It's obvious why Jared Kushner continues to cover for MBS.
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White House whistleblower says *25* security clearance denials were reversed during Trump administration. She calls Congress her "last hope" to restore integrity to the process, shot to hell, it sounds like in this incredible report - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/powerpost/whit…
🤯It's like Groundhog Day in Hell. Two years after we learned Russian ambassador Kislyak told Moscow #Kushner wanted a secret communications channel with the Kremlin, he's still in WH, still Secretary of Everything, w/ top security clearance b/c nepotism trumps national security.
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Remember Mueller’s focus is narrow.
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Paula Chertok🗽
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>>> 🚨Overruling the CIA, Trump directly ordered COS John Kelly to grant his son-in-law Jared #Kushner a TOP-SECRET security clearance. (Sometimes mobsters do give direct orders; shocking a US General followed them) nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/… h/t @yashar
Trump’s decision so troubled senior administration officials that COS John Kelly wrote a contemporaneous internal memo to document he had been ORDERED to give #Kushner the top-secret security clearance. WH counsel McGahn also wrote a memo of CIA & others' concerns about Kushner.
Ivanka's truth quotient: ZERO:
>> "The president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance—zero”

(NYT reports today Trump "ordered" Kelly to overrule CIA and grant Kushner top-secret security clearance. See above)
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Rep. Don Beyer
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Last week we learned that career White House national security specialists reportedly rejected Jared Kushner's application for a security clearance, but were overruled by a "quasi-political" supervisor.

Jared Kushner's security clearance *must* be revoked.

With @tedlieu:
That report by NBC also revealed that "Kushner's was one of at least 30 cases in which Kline overruled career security experts and approved a top-secret clearance for incoming Trump officials despite unfavorable information."

This is intolerable. 2/
NBC reports "Kushner's FBI background check identified questions about his family's business, his foreign contacts, his foreign travel and meetings he had during the campaign."

We warned the White House about these exact issues prior to his rejection. 3/
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