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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump admin has 14 (!) people receiving top-secret PDB (President's Daily Brief) b/c it's "cool"
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Detail from a New Yorker article on Jared Kushner:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/jared-kushner-is-chinas-trump-card
As months passed, some members of the White House received their permanent security clearances, but Kushner continued to wait. For high-level appointees, the process is normally expedited, a former senior U.S. official said. It can be completed in several months, unless derogatory information pops up during the review.
Kushner had an interim clearance that gave him access to intelligence. He was also added to a list of recipients of the Presidents Daily Brief, or P.D.B., a top-secret digest of the U.S. governments most closely held and compartmentalized intelligence reports. By the end of the Obama Administration, seven White House officials were authorized to receive the same version of the P.D.B. that appeared on the Presidents iPad. The Trump Administration expanded the number to as many as fourteen people, including Kushner. A former senior official said, of the growing P.D.B. distribution list, It got out of control. Everybody thought it was cool. They wanted to be cool.
Some people in the office of the director of National Intelligence questioned the expansion, but officials who reported to Trump didnt want to risk irritating him by trying to exclude his son-in-law and other new additions. David Priess, a former C.I.A. officer who delivered the P.D.B. during the George W. Bush Administration and is the author of The Presidents Book of Secrets, said that Kushners situation was unprecedented: Having studied the Presidents Daily Briefs six-decade history, I have not come across another case of a White House official being a designated recipient of the P.D.B., for that length of time, without having a full security clearance.
Kushner had an interim clearance that gave him access to intelligence. He was also added to a list of recipients of the Presidents Daily Brief, or P.D.B., a top-secret digest of the U.S. governments most closely held and compartmentalized intelligence reports. By the end of the Obama Administration, seven White House officials were authorized to receive the same version of the P.D.B. that appeared on the Presidents iPad. The Trump Administration expanded the number to as many as fourteen people, including Kushner. A former senior official said, of the growing P.D.B. distribution list, It got out of control. Everybody thought it was cool. They wanted to be cool.
Some people in the office of the director of National Intelligence questioned the expansion, but officials who reported to Trump didnt want to risk irritating him by trying to exclude his son-in-law and other new additions. David Priess, a former C.I.A. officer who delivered the P.D.B. during the George W. Bush Administration and is the author of The Presidents Book of Secrets, said that Kushners situation was unprecedented: Having studied the Presidents Daily Briefs six-decade history, I have not come across another case of a White House official being a designated recipient of the P.D.B., for that length of time, without having a full security clearance.
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Trump admin has 14 (!) people receiving top-secret PDB (President's Daily Brief) b/c it's "cool" (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jan 2018
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(49,122 posts)1. kick
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(49,122 posts)2. Kicking again, since Rachel is talking about this now.