More than 100 WH officials do not have full security clearance
Over one year into the T-rump Presidency, and we're now learning more than 100 senior officials - including Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner - still have 'interim clearance', while other senior staff members have acquired 'full security clearance'. Those without full security clearance are prohibited from gaining access to confidential, classified information - but we have seen just the opposite with former employee Rob Porter and Jared Kushner.
The White House is blaming a 'bureaucratic backlog', while others are saying a number of these employees have simply failed to pass security clearance for multiple reasons, and will never get full security.
All this information has come forward after senior official Porter resigned after the media reported on his past history of beating his two ex-wives. The FBI stands by it's claims that they warned the White House multiple times in 2017 that Porter would not get full clearance because of his past, and they advised against him working with sensitive, classified information. The White House refused to remove him from his post.
Currently, Porter's replacement Derek Lyons, who has interim clearance since January 2017, did not have full security clearance either, as of November 2017.