US President Donald Trump should have given his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner against the Express advice of his staff will have access to highly confidential information. Trump personally gave the order last may to grant Kushner, a so-called Top-Secret clearance. Granted Kushner unfettered access to secret government information, reported the “New York Times” on Thursday, citing four informants.

The President was against the recommendations of his former chiefs of staff John Kelly and the then General counsel in the White house, Donald McGahn. The two men were so concerned that they kept their concerns in internal memos. Kelly had written down that he had received the Order to grant Kushner, a Top-Secret clearance.

McGahn have listed in his Memo to the objections that had been raised against this step. Also he had stated that he had spoken out against the release of for Kushner, according to the newspaper report.

report contrary to the statements of Trumps

The report is in direct contradiction to statements of the President, who said in January the “New York Times” that he had played no role in the release.

Also, trump’s daughter and Advisor Ivanka, who is married to Kushner, said in an Interview with ABC in February. “The President was not involved in my (Top-Secret)approval of the release of my husband. Not at all (orig.: zero)”, the President’s daughter. To delays due to General congestion, there have been no problems. “That was already the case under the Obama administration and the Clinton administration,” says Ivanka Trump.

Kushner’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, and pushed past into the same Horn. After the publication of the “Times”report, a spokesman for Lowell’s, the share had been issued in a “regular procedure, without pressure from anyone”.

concerns of the intelligence services

For close associates of a US President is such a release is important, because they are otherwise cut off from important information, such as confidential intelligence information. The release is generally issued only after a catchy audit by the safety authorities.

In the case of Kushner was not completed this test more than a year after his exchange as a consultant to the White house. Exactly what the concerns were of a grant of approval in the way, is not known.

maybe it went to Kushner a wide range of business connections abroad. In addition, trump’s son-in-law met the son in front of the office with representatives of Russia, but to the security authorities did not initially specified.

(mac/sda)

Created: 01.03.2019, 18:25 PM