COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
Jared Kushner stripped
of top-level security clearance
President's son-in-law
is one of several White House staff to have clearance downgraded
That Jared Kushner ever enjoyed the highest level of
security clearance is astonishing.
He has no standing in government. No history. No record of
expertise. Never elected to anything. He is under no formal oversight. He possesses
no expert qualifications of any kind.
His father is a convicted felon.
Jared Kushner himself maintains the most intimate
relationship with a foreign power, Israel, and its flagrantly-corrupt Prime
Minister.
Kushner has already done some things for his family business
which are extremely questionable, as his promoting a family development by
telling Asians they would be able to obtain American residence if they bought
into it.
All this, while half the government of the United States
insanely busies itself looking under beds and rugs, tearing itself apart, for
evidence of imagined Russian influence?
You worry about a few Russians buying advertising while at
the same time a seriously questionable character like Jared Kushner enjoys the
highest-possible access to secrets?
Even if the Russians had hacked into the DNC's computer to
obtain the dirt on Hillary we all saw from Wikileaks (and it is certain they
did not, several top-level security experts have told us) the only accusation
would be one of over-enthusiastic investigators hacking into someone's personal
incriminating information.
It all had nothing to do with government secrets, even in
the most extreme claims by Democrats. And nothing to do with election
interference, unless you call the release of embarrassing facts, things voters
should actually know, a form of interference.
But here is a man of no standing in Washington, other than
being the President's son-in-law, an intimate of a foreign power including of
its corrupt Prime Minister, a man whose father is a felon active in business,
and a man whose business practices are already seen as questionable, and this
man is given the highest secret clearance?
It's appalling. Why did Jonathan Pollard go to prison for 30
years if a guy like Kushner can just prance in and see everything, then go over
to Israel to discuss top-level secrets with a crook like Netanyahu and a crook
like his own father?
Trump has brought the practices of the American government
to the lowest level ever imagined.
