The professional responsible for supervising the issuance of White House security clearances finally had enough and went to talk to Congress about the threat Trump poses to America's national security by OVERRIDING their rulings that at least 25 of his people are not qualified to see classified information.
Drugs, foreign connections, major foreign conflicts of interest, financial problems were just some of the reasons these people, which include Ivanka and Jared, were denied clearances by those responsible for such things. Nevertheless, Trump and his staff decided to throw national security out the window and issue them anyway.
Granted, the President has such a power. But would a responsible, ethical president would not exercise such power? No!
Now Congress will probably have to take that power away from future presidents in order to protect the nation from such an abuse of power.
Do you agree?
See: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/01/politics … index.html
What is the worst case scenario/results, in your mind?
... mine is blank on this issue.
stupid?
guess so.
I mean, its not funny.
There is no telling how many state secrets have been passed on willingly or stupidly by Trump (we know of a couple) and his compromised staffers and family.
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