June 6, 2018
THE LEAKY WHEEL GETS THE GREASE:
What's the real reason Jared Kushner lost his security clearance? (Cockburn, 6 June 2018, Spectator USA)
A retired member of a US intelligence agency tells Cockburn there was another reason for revoking the temporary clearance. This source, having spoken to former colleagues still serving, says Kushner would habitually put in a stream of RFIs - Requests For Information - after he had seen the PDB or other briefings. These RFIs often related to places where his family or the Trump Organisation had business interests, or wanted to have them. There were instances, our source says, when this sensitive information was echoed back in US monitoring of calls between senior figures in the Middle East. One prince would be telling another prince secrets that the US intelligence agencies had only just gathered and passed to the White House.
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 6, 2018 1:17 PM