Third White House official resigns after being told he wouldn’t qualify for full clearance

[undertherqadar]

So what's to prevent someone from denying them clearance in an effort to undermine his choices and hope he chooses some Establishment politician?

Trumps team needs to apply pressure to get details. Look at some of the leaks coming from people like Comey, and he did ok with his clearance. Or how about Brenna, former head of the CIA who once voted for the Communists!?

Either decide how stringent it must be, or deny everyone. Hell, even George Washington chopped down a cherry tree. If it were 2018 he wouldn't get clearance either.

Funny how Obama could get this done with his choices. How FFS! Weird,

Right. Obama the hardcore globalist, who placed America 125th in importance. He was embraced by the Establishment and they all got drunk off his debt increases, while Trump put America First and had to fight everyone including his own party to win.

Don't forget to mention Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers and soros!!! for a nice touch add birth certificate!!!!

 

[Wuwei]

Banks is the third White House official to leave the administration over the last week

It looks like the swamp is being drained after all.

 

[deanrd]

Third White House official resigns after being told he wouldn’t qualify for full clearance

A senior official on the National Economic Council resigned on Tuesday after being informed that he would not receive a permanent security clearance, as the White House faces increasing scrutiny over the number of high-ranking officials allowed to work on interim clearances.

George David Banks, who had served since February 2017 as special assistant to the president for international energy and environmental policy, told POLITICO that he was informed by the White House counsel’s office Tuesday that his application for a permanent clearance

Like an estimated three dozen others in the White House, Banks had been working on an interim security clearance while the administration determined the status of his full clearance.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Banks is the third White House official to leave the administration over the last week


DANG!? Again... Yep.. The Great Douche only HIRES the Best Peoples.

Hot women in mini skirts and long hair. The White House dress code.

 

[deanrd]

So what's to prevent someone from denying them clearance in an effort to undermine his choices and hope he chooses some Establishment politician?

Trumps team needs to apply pressure to get details. Look at some of the leaks coming from people like Comey, and he did ok with his clearance. Or how about Brenna, former head of the CIA who once voted for the Communists!?

Either decide how stringent it must be, or deny everyone. Hell, even George Washington chopped down a cherry tree. If it were 2018 he wouldn't get clearance either.

Funny how Obama could get this done with his choices. How FFS! Weird,

Right. Obama the hardcore globalist, who placed America 125th in importance. He was embraced by the Establishment and they all got drunk off his debt increases, while Trump put America First and had to fight everyone including his own party to win.

Don't forget to mention Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers and soros!!! for a nice touch add birth certificate!!!!

For the love of Gawd yes, don't forget the birf cer tif a kit.

 

[Lastamender]

Who needs a security clearance at the WH....stand by for that to be the new trumpanzee mantra.

Hey, Obama did it without the Constitution, why not?

 

[Baz Ares]

Yikes: FBI Denied Obama's Iran Deal Messenger and Top Advisor Ben Rhodes a Security Clearance in 2008

...Rhodes failed to pass FBI scrutiny in 2008 while being vetted for the White House and was denied the necessary security clearance. Despite the denial, Rhodes went on to become an architect of U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration. Specifically, the Iran nuclear deal.

Ben Rhodes, a White House deputy national security adviser who led the administration’s efforts to mislead Congress about the terms of the Iran nuclear agreement, is under scrutiny in the wake of disclosures he was declined interim clearance status by the FBI in 2008, when the administration was moving into the White House. ...


Yikes: FBI Denied Obama's Iran Deal Messenger and Top Advisor Ben Rhodes a Security Clearance in 2008

I recall he was, and later got cleared. Amazing, the systems working.
They addressed the issue. 1 out of the 200
who applied after 2008 election.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Some of you guys are missing the point. There is a massive difference between clearance issues, and in the end Trump can provide a waiver, as Obama did with Ben Rhodes, who spent years as a national Security advisor. The FBI wouldn't even give him low level clearance, that's how much they must have seen in him as a potential threat, or a potential target for blackmail.

So, did a guy smoke a joint in college and is now inadmissible for the WH? What about a guy who got in a scrap outside a bar, or was pulled over for drunk driving? What if he is in debt, but paying his bills on time and the job itself might be such a raise as to ensure he is ok? You want choir boys, drones and yes men, or do you want human beings who are imperfect but who have arisen to the occasion when it mattered? Maybe even, gulp, changed from the time there were 20 to the time they were 40.

There is a massive difference between someone compromised, or some low level red flag. Quite frankly, I've been around all kinds of people, and the worst people I met were the guys who were plastic their whole lives, but underneath that facade they had poor character. They got ahead by screwing other people over and would sell their country out in a minute if the price was right, but, they have the optics of being clean and perfect. How many crazies go Postal on their family and everyone talks about what a fine gentleman he was?

At the very least, speak out about general dangers and be honest. If the threshold is "he could be blackmailed" you will have noone in government, and Hillary would have made for one of the easiest targets in history as President.

 

[Baz Ares]

Some of you guys are missing the point. There is a massive difference between clearance issues, and in the end Trump can provide a waiver, as Obama did with Ben Rhodes, who spent years as a national Security advisor. The FBI wouldn't even give him low level clearance, that's how much they must have seen in him as a potential threat, or a potential target for blackmail.

So, did a guy smoke a joint in college and is now inadmissible for the WH? What about a guy who got in a scrap outside a bar, or was pulled over for drunk driving? What if he is in debt, but paying his bills on time and the job itself might be such a raise as to ensure he is ok? You want choir boys, drones and yes men, or do you want human beings who are imperfect but who have arisen to the occasion when it mattered? Maybe even, gulp, changed from the time there were 20 to the time they were 40.

There is a massive difference between someone compromised, or some low level red flag. Quite frankly, I've been around all kinds of people, and the worst people I met were the guys who were plastic their whole lives, but underneath that facade they had poor character. They got ahead by screwing other people over and would sell their country out in a minute if the price was right, but, they have the optics of being clean and perfect. How many crazies go Postal on their family and everyone talks about what a fine gentleman he was?

At the very least, speak out about general dangers and be honest. If the threshold is "he could be blackmailed" you will have noone in government, and Hillary would have made for one of the easiest targets in history as President.

After 38 years in public life and offices held, still trying to get HRC charged with crimes.

 

[DrLove]

Hot women in mini skirts and long hair. The White House dress code.

Don't forget monstrous mounds of silicone and saline!

 

[shockedcanadian]

Some of you guys are missing the point. There is a massive difference between clearance issues, and in the end Trump can provide a waiver, as Obama did with Ben Rhodes, who spent years as a national Security advisor. The FBI wouldn't even give him low level clearance, that's how much they must have seen in him as a potential threat, or a potential target for blackmail.

So, did a guy smoke a joint in college and is now inadmissible for the WH? What about a guy who got in a scrap outside a bar, or was pulled over for drunk driving? What if he is in debt, but paying his bills on time and the job itself might be such a raise as to ensure he is ok? You want choir boys, drones and yes men, or do you want human beings who are imperfect but who have arisen to the occasion when it mattered? Maybe even, gulp, changed from the time there were 20 to the time they were 40.

There is a massive difference between someone compromised, or some low level red flag. Quite frankly, I've been around all kinds of people, and the worst people I met were the guys who were plastic their whole lives, but underneath that facade they had poor character. They got ahead by screwing other people over and would sell their country out in a minute if the price was right, but, they have the optics of being clean and perfect. How many crazies go Postal on their family and everyone talks about what a fine gentleman he was?

At the very least, speak out about general dangers and be honest. If the threshold is "he could be blackmailed" you will have noone in government, and Hillary would have made for one of the easiest targets in history as President.

After 38 years in public life and offices held, still trying to get HRC charged with crimes.

It's precisely because she spent so much time in political offices and orbits that she always needs to be held to account. You see her net worth? Who's back was that on?

 

[SillyWabbit]

So what's to prevent someone from denying them clearance in an effort to undermine his choices and hope he chooses some Establishment politician?

Trumps team needs to apply pressure to get details. Look at some of the leaks coming from people like Comey, and he did ok with his clearance. Or how about Brenna, former head of the CIA who once voted for the Communists!?

Either decide how stringent it must be, or deny everyone. Hell, even George Washington chopped down a cherry tree. If it were 2018 he wouldn't get clearance either.

It's not as hard to get top secret clearance as you think. Trump just keeps nominating criminals.

He nominates his cohorts. If all you know are criminals and lunatics, where are you going to get candidates? Perhaps the Russians have some alternates in mind.

 

[Baz Ares]

Some of you guys are missing the point. There is a massive difference between clearance issues, and in the end Trump can provide a waiver, as Obama did with Ben Rhodes, who spent years as a national Security advisor. The FBI wouldn't even give him low level clearance, that's how much they must have seen in him as a potential threat, or a potential target for blackmail.

So, did a guy smoke a joint in college and is now inadmissible for the WH? What about a guy who got in a scrap outside a bar, or was pulled over for drunk driving? What if he is in debt, but paying his bills on time and the job itself might be such a raise as to ensure he is ok? You want choir boys, drones and yes men, or do you want human beings who are imperfect but who have arisen to the occasion when it mattered? Maybe even, gulp, changed from the time there were 20 to the time they were 40.

There is a massive difference between someone compromised, or some low level red flag. Quite frankly, I've been around all kinds of people, and the worst people I met were the guys who were plastic their whole lives, but underneath that facade they had poor character. They got ahead by screwing other people over and would sell their country out in a minute if the price was right, but, they have the optics of being clean and perfect. How many crazies go Postal on their family and everyone talks about what a fine gentleman he was?

At the very least, speak out about general dangers and be honest. If the threshold is "he could be blackmailed" you will have noone in government, and Hillary would have made for one of the easiest targets in history as President.

After 38 years in public life and offices held, still trying to get HRC charged with crimes.

It's precisely because she spent so much time in political offices and orbits that she always needs to be held to account. You see her net worth? Who's back was that on?

And how is giving speeches and selling books so bad? Seems all party members do this.
Hell, did Obama get a YUGE book deal up front of 65M?
The Obamas could earn more than $200 million in the next 15 years

As Dubya got real smaller one. Like 10 Million, was it?

 

[SillyWabbit]

Third White House official resigns after being told he wouldn’t qualify for full clearance

A senior official on the National Economic Council resigned on Tuesday after being informed that he would not receive a permanent security clearance, as the White House faces increasing scrutiny over the number of high-ranking officials allowed to work on interim clearances.

George David Banks, who had served since February 2017 as special assistant to the president for international energy and environmental policy, told POLITICO that he was informed by the White House counsel’s office Tuesday that his application for a permanent clearance

Like an estimated three dozen others in the White House, Banks had been working on an interim security clearance while the administration determined the status of his full clearance.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Banks is the third White House official to leave the administration over the last week


DANG!? Again... Yep.. The Great Douche only HIRES the Best Peoples.

Hot women in mini skirts and long hair. The White House dress code.

How come this hasn't panned out? I knew things would be looney toons with the Trumpster as POTUS, but I thought we could at least count on Jenny McCarthy as Surgeon General or something along those lines. What we've gotten is the Menagerie of Lunatics and Criminals. Maybe Trump really swings the other way--he just likes to come off as a womanizer? Not that I have anything against someone for being into aging, white males, but at least have the courage of honesty.

 

[kwc57]

Third White House official resigns after being told he wouldn’t qualify for full clearance

A senior official on the National Economic Council resigned on Tuesday after being informed that he would not receive a permanent security clearance, as the White House faces increasing scrutiny over the number of high-ranking officials allowed to work on interim clearances.

George David Banks, who had served since February 2017 as special assistant to the president for international energy and environmental policy, told POLITICO that he was informed by the White House counsel’s office Tuesday that his application for a permanent clearance

Like an estimated three dozen others in the White House, Banks had been working on an interim security clearance while the administration determined the status of his full clearance.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Banks is the third White House official to leave the administration over the last week


DANG!? Again... Yep.. The Great Douche only HIRES the Best Peoples.

Surprising considering that the DOJ and FBI give high level folks in the government a pass on following the rules. Hell, Obama used a personal account to email Hillary on her personal email server and she and staff passed top secret documents in the clear. I don't see why they are applying a different standard now.

 

[toobfreak]

DANG!? Again... Yep.. The Great Douche only HIRES the Best Peoples.

Interesting claim. For one thing, no one was looking too closely enough at Obama's cabinet in 2008. That's too bad. Now they are trying to make up for lost time. Now thanks to democrats, they are looking very closely with a magnifying glass at all of Trump's in yet one more attempt to thwart an election. So let's take a look at Obama's Administration for contrast and comparison:

1. ERIC HOLDER - known tax cheat.
2. VAN JONES - black militant known communist in prison with ties to The Apollo Alliance co-founded Organization Storm Marxist movement.
   
3. JOHN HOLDREN - backed forced abortions with 2 baby limit.
4. CASS SUNSTEIN - wanted bans on hunting and eating meat. Dogs should be allowed to have an attorney.
5. CAROL BROWNER - member of Socialists International (global government).
6. JEFF JONES - entrance records at White House sealed. Member of Weather Underground.
7. RASHID KHALIDI - radical ties to Bill Ayers, founded parent org. for Weather Underground, favored terrorism.
8. JOHN POSESTA - known member of Center For American Progress worked closely with Soros.
   
9. ELLA BAKER / DRUMMOND PIKE - ties to Acorn, Tides Foundation, Communist Party USA, Movement for A Democratic Society, Socialists Of America and Apollo Alliance, all groomed by them to appear more mainstream.
10. BARACK OBAMA - mentored by communist Frank Marshall Davis sought out Marxist professors in college & went to Marxist church for 20 years.
11. MARION NESSLE - believed in using food supply as means to starve undesired populations to death.
12. MARK LLOYD - member of Center For American Progress.

Obama had 15 cabinet advisors and 37 czars that were promoting population control by government, globalism; never in the history of this nation has there ever been so many people reporting only to the President and whom were never confirmed by Congress. Czars ideas are a means of creating policy without any legislative process. The opposite of Trump's cabinet, Obama's was replete with people who had spent their entire lives in the public sector never having ever punched a clock or made a payroll.

Along with the above are so many other questionable names tied to Obama and his administration:

The Joyce Foundation
John Ayers
CCX ( Chicago Climate Exchange)
Edward Sandor
Maurice Strong
David Blood
Peter Harris
Mark Furguson
Franklin Raines
Joel Rogers
The Shore Bank
Kathleen Kennedy
Andy Stern
Henry Cisneros
Patricia Coates Jesseme
John Banks
Harvey Hershfeld
Eric Eve
David Beckwirth
Wade Rathke
SEIU
Dale Rathke
Valerie Jarrett

There is enough here to take a hundred US Governments a dozen human lifetimes to fully investigate at the rate that justice flows. Like Alinsky said: OVERWHELM THE SYSTEM. ALL of the above people and organizations have been found to have ties to anti-American activities seeking to subvert and undermine our republic in one way or another. On top of that a President who never has satisfactorily even proven his status as a natural born citizen and with a SS# from a state he never lived in. HOW DID ALL OF THIS ESCAPE THE INVESTIGATION AND VETTING of our Congress in 2008? If ever there was a time to QUESTION or LOOK CLOSELY at who was running our country, it was ten years ago when too many had far too many ties to big government and foreign interests, than now, worried that NOT ENOUGH have enough ties to big government and experience with foreign interests!

It is easy to see how there is so much a swamp upset at Trump's winning----- ----- his winning and Hillary's losing meant ALL OF THE ABOVE PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS and many more beneath the surface who had spent years working their way into the very tapestry of our federal government were now suddenly without a means to carry out their agenda! The Obama Administration was little more than a front for every clandestine and subversive organization in this country to finally be empowered with a voice! And the only thing wrong with the Trump Presidency now is that "voice" has been snipped in the balls.

 

[Baz Ares]

DANG!? Again... Yep.. The Great Douche only HIRES the Best Peoples.

Interesting claim. For one thing, no one was looking too closely enough at Obama's cabinet in 2008. That's too bad. Now they are trying to make up for lost time. Now thanks to democrats, they are looking very closely with a magnifying glass at all of Trump's in yet one more attempt to thwart an election. So let's take a look at Obama's Administration for contrast and comparison:

1. ERIC HOLDER - known tax cheat.
2. VAN JONES - black militant known communist in prison with ties to The Apollo Alliance co-founded Organization Storm Marxist movement.
   
3. JOHN HOLDREN - backed forced abortions with 2 baby limit.
4. CASS SUNSTEIN - wanted bans on hunting and eating meat. Dogs should be allowed to have an attorney.
5. CAROL BROWNER - member of Socialists International (global government).
6. JEFF JONES - entrance records at White House sealed. Member of Weather Underground.
7. RASHID KHALIDI - radical ties to Bill Ayers, founded parent org. for Weather Underground, favored terrorism.
8. JOHN POSESTA - known member of Center For American Progress worked closely with Soros.
   
9. ELLA BAKER / DRUMMOND PIKE - ties to Acorn, Tides Foundation, Communist Party USA, Movement for A Democratic Society, Socialists Of America and Apollo Alliance, all groomed by them to appear more mainstream.
10. Barack Obama - mentored by communist Frank Marshall Davis sought out Marxist professors in college & went to Marxist church for 20 years.
11. MARION NESSLE - believed in using food supply as means to starve undesired populations to death.
12. Mark Lloyd - member of Center For American Progress.

Obama had 15 cabinet advisors and 37 czars that were promoting population control by government, globalism; never in the history of this nation has there ever been so many people reporting only to the President and whom were never confirmed by Congress. Czars ideas are a means of creating policy without any legislative process. The opposite of Trump's cabinet, Obama's was replete with people who had spent their entire lives in the public sector never having ever punched a clock or made a payroll.

Along with the above are so many other questionable names tied to Obama and his administration:

The Joyce Foundation
John Ayers
CCX ( Chicago Climate Exchange)
Edward Sandor
Maurice Strong
David Blood
Peter Harris
Mark Furguson
Franklin Raines
Joel Rogers
The Shore Bank
Kathleen Kennedy
Andy Stern
Henry Cisneros
Patricia Coates Jesseme
John Banks
Harvey Hershfeld
Eric Eve
David Beckwirth
Wade Rathke
SEIU
Dale Rathke
Valerie Jarrett

There is enough here to take a hundred US Governments a dozen human lifetimes to fully investigate at the rate that justice flows. Like Alinsky said: OVERWHELM THE SYSTEM. ALL of the above people and organizations have been found to have ties to anti-American activities seeking to subvert and undermine our republic in one way or another. On top of that a President who never has satisfactorily even proven his status as a natural born citizen and with a SS# from a state he never lived in. HOW DID ALL OF THIS ESCAPE THE INVESTIGATION AND VETTING of our Congress in 2008? If ever there was a time to QUESTION or LOOK CLOSELY at who was running our country, it was ten years ago when too many had far too many ties to big government and foreign interests, than now, worried that NOT ENOUGH have enough ties to big government and experience with foreign interests!

It is easy to see how there is so much a swamp upset at Trump's winning----- ----- his winning and Hillary's losing meant ALL OF THE ABOVE PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS and many more beneath the surface who had spent years working their way into the very tapestry of our federal government were now suddenly without a means to carry out their agenda!

You be reading Alex (the Lizard) Jones all day... FFS!
Find some real plausible issues with Obama choices..

 

[busybee01]

So what's to prevent someone from denying them clearance in an effort to undermine his choices and hope he chooses some Establishment politician?

Trumps team needs to apply pressure to get details. Look at some of the leaks coming from people like Comey, and he did ok with his clearance. Or how about Brennan, former head of the CIA who once voted for the Communists!?

Either decide how stringent it must be, or deny everyone. Hell, even George Washington chopped down a cherry tree. If it were 2018 he wouldn't get clearance either.

More crazy conspiracy theories.

 

[SillyWabbit]

DANG!? Again... Yep.. The Great Douche only HIRES the Best Peoples.

Interesting claim. For one thing, no one was looking too closely enough at Obama's cabinet in 2008. That's too bad. Now they are trying to make up for lost time. Now thanks to democrats, they are looking very closely with a magnifying glass at all of Trump's in yet one more attempt to thwart an election. So let's take a look at Obama's Administration for contrast and comparison:

1. ERIC HOLDER - known tax cheat.
2. VAN JONES - black militant known communist in prison with ties to The Apollo Alliance co-founded Organization Storm Marxist movement.
   
3. JOHN HOLDREN - backed forced abortions with 2 baby limit.
4. CASS SUNSTEIN - wanted bans on hunting and eating meat. Dogs should be allowed to have an attorney.
5. CAROL BROWNER - member of Socialists International (global government).
6. JEFF JONES - entrance records at White House sealed. Member of Weather Underground.
7. RASHID KHALIDI - radical ties to Bill Ayers, founded parent org. for Weather Underground, favored terrorism.
8. JOHN POSESTA - known member of Center For American Progress worked closely with Soros.
   
9. ELLA BAKER / DRUMMOND PIKE - ties to Acorn, Tides Foundation, Communist Party USA, Movement for A Democratic Society, Socialists Of America and Apollo Alliance, all groomed by them to appear more mainstream.
10. Barack Obama - mentored by communist Frank Marshall Davis sought out Marxist professors in college & went to Marxist church for 20 years.
11. MARION NESSLE - believed in using food supply as means to starve undesired populations to death.
12. Mark Lloyd - member of Center For American Progress.

Obama had 15 cabinet advisors and 37 czars that were promoting population control by government, globalism; never in the history of this nation has there ever been so many people reporting only to the President and whom were never confirmed by Congress. Czars ideas are a means of creating policy without any legislative process. The opposite of Trump's cabinet, Obama's was replete with people who had spent their entire lives in the public sector never having ever punched a clock or made a payroll.

Along with the above are so many other questionable names tied to Obama and his administration:

The Joyce Foundation
John Ayers
CCX ( Chicago Climate Exchange)
Edward Sandor
Maurice Strong
David Blood
Peter Harris
Mark Furguson
Franklin Raines
Joel Rogers
The Shore Bank
Kathleen Kennedy
Andy Stern
Henry Cisneros
Patricia Coates Jesseme
John Banks
Harvey Hershfeld
Eric Eve
David Beckwirth
Wade Rathke
SEIU
Dale Rathke
Valerie Jarrett

There is enough here to take a hundred US Governments a dozen human lifetimes to fully investigate at the rate that justice flows. Like Alinsky said: OVERWHELM THE SYSTEM. ALL of the above people and organizations have been found to have ties to anti-American activities seeking to subvert and undermine our republic in one way or another. On top of that a President who never has satisfactorily even proven his status as a natural born citizen and with a SS# from a state he never lived in. HOW DID ALL OF THIS ESCAPE THE INVESTIGATION AND VETTING of our Congress in 2008? If ever there was a time to QUESTION or LOOK CLOSELY at who was running our country, it was ten years ago when too many had far too many ties to big government and foreign interests, then now, worried that NOT ENOUGH have enough ties to big government and experience with foreign interests!

It is easy to see how there is so much a swamp upset at Trump's winning----- ----- his winning and Hillary's losing meant ALL OF THE ABOVE PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS and many more beneath the surface who had spent years working their way into the very tapestry of our federal government were now suddenly without a means to carry out their agenda!

Quite the opposite, indeed. Trump strives to hire those with as little experience as possible for the positions he's looking to fill . In fact, if someone is diametrically opposed to the reason for being of the department Trump is looking to fill positions in--especially Department head--that's essentially all the qualifications you need. All the more reason I look forward to Ms. McCarthy's nomination for DHHS Secretary any day now.
Come on, Trumpolina, at least throw us a bone.

 

[DrLove]

Interesting claim. For one thing, no one was looking too closely enough at Obama's cabinet in 2008. That's too bad. Now they are trying to make up for lost time. Now thanks to democrats, they are looking very closely with a magnifying glass at all of Trump's in yet one more attempt to thwart an election. So let's take a look at Obama's Administration for contrast and comparison:

Dissecting the non-information in your screed too time consuming.
Suffice to merely say: BULLSHIT

 

[SillyWabbit]

Trump's winning.
And the sea's aren't rising.
Reality, it seems, truly lies within our heads.