The following is via ABC News:
Donald Trump’s presidential transition team has requested a security clearance for the president-elect’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, sources close to Trump team and the intelligence community confirm to ABC.
Kushner, who has been married to Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka, since 2009, has been a close adviser to Trump and a mainstay at the Trump Tower while the transition teams maps out next year’s administration. Like Trump, Kushner is the son of a wealthy real estate developer and has become an extremely successful businessman in his own right.
The request for Kushner’s security clearance comes one day after Trump and his Vice President-elect Mike Pence received their first presidential daily brief, or PDB, a highly sensitive rundown of the days most urgent national security issues typically reserved for the president and a handful of his top officials. It is customary for the president to offer that same briefing to the president-elect.
Kushner’s advisory role within Trump’s innermost circle has been elevated since it was announced on Friday that Vice President-elect Mike Pence would be taking over control of the transition process from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who was let go.
The 35 year-old Harvard graduate was one of only a handful of advisers Trump brought with him to the White House last week, and he was seen walking the south lawn with President Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough.
Trump denied reports that he had previously requested security clearances for his children, tweeting today that “this was a typically false news story.”
(Source: ABC News)
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8 Responses
Is he planning to run for office? Given the company he keeps, I doubt he would consider anything less than governor or United States Senator.
Makes sense.
Can you get a security clearance if you are a blood relative of a federal ex-convict?
#3 Security clearance and classified data better with a blood relative than one who has blood on her hands.
Kushner could easily be privy to all the state secrets by simply going daily to the mikva and listening to all the gossip.
What does Security clearance entail?
To no. 4, Arye: Kushner is reportedly seeking a security clearance. Hillary is not.
The law clearly prohibits a son-in-law from serving in any capacity in the administration, whether paid or not.