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It wasnt that long ago that Donald Trump ran for president making the case that Hillary Clintons use of a private email server as secretary of state represented a grave national security threat and made her unfit for office.
Evidence is now mounting that he and his White House have taken plenty of their own shortcuts, with the kind of dire implications Trump warned about. And now a key figure is stepping forward to blow the whistle on it.
The Posts Rachael Bade reports on a new White House whistleblower who alleges that the Trump administration has awarded 25 security clearances to people who had been denied those clearances by national security officials.
Tricia Newbold has served 18 years in the security clearance process, in both Democratic and Republican administrations. She says the denials had been issued for reasons including concerns about potential blackmail, foreign influence, conflicts of interest, questionable or criminal conduct, financial issues and drug abuse. Thats a range of denials that covers pretty much all the major reasons one might not get cleared. She alleges that the administration has looked past all of them. She even says she was told not to raise concerns and retaliated against when she did, by being demoted.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-white-house-whistleblower-bombshell-and-what-it-could-mean/ar-BBVv3AH?li=BBnb7Kz
mopinko
(70,395 posts)is that why they keep blocking the door to women?
let's elect more, then.
(imho, the answer is- marginalized people are more likely to blow the whistle for a lot of reasons. lesson- dont marginalize people, and try not to break so many fucking rules.)
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)they mentioned how this lady lives outside of Baltimore and showed the front of her house.
I was like, Holy shit, why are they doing this? I hope she's ok, she's courageous.
Takket
(21,729 posts)You know that is coming
certainot
(9,090 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)limbaugh likely will use his subtle way to threaten her and her family because they will need to discourage others from joining and legitimizing it. as in the past, like he did with christine blasey ford and many others, he could do it by casually slipping some family information into his discussion
and we let 88 universities support 260 of the stations he blows from