WH gears up to fight House Dems on info on Trump family getting security clearances

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(03-06-2019, 02:30 PM)michaelsean Wrote: If it's legal, what are they investigating? (Yes I didn't feel like reading the article)  Not that his douche son-in-law should be anywhere near anything important.

Good question. Here is a follow up: If it's legal, why is Trump always hiding his breaches of protocol?

In addition to BPat's points about Congressional oversight, I have to add some other concerns.

1. Our intel services have, heretofore, ALWAYS monitored the interactions of the president and his advisers (with their unreserved cooperation) with foreigners, especially representatives of foreign governments.  This involves listening in to their conversations and producing transcripts thereof (a process which Trump has repeatedly compromised). But it also involves determining who can get high level clearances. There is so far little restriction on what the president can do regarding such clearances, largely because there has been no need.  ALL presidents have recognized the need for protocols and process, and respected the expertise of the intel experts.  That Trump has scorned this precedent rightly sets the intel community and his own advisors on edge. They (and Congress) are scrambling to cope with Trump's numerous "legal" breaches of protocol by finding out what he and his family have actually done--because they have deliberately misreported that.

2. Because some of Trump's interaction, and that of his subordinates, has been off the radar, so to speak, it is not clear that his dealings with foreign powers have been entirely legal. Shameful that we have to investigate to find out.