Media’s Obsessive 2016 Focus on Security of Classified Materials Pays Immediate Dividends
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Hard to see any issues with the handling of classified materials resulting from this:
More than 130 political appointees working in the Executive Office of the President did not have permanent security clearances as of November 2017, including the president’s daughter, son-in-law and his top legal counsel, according to internal White House documents obtained by NBC News.
Of those appointees working with interim clearances, 47 of them are in positions that report directly to President Donald Trump. About a quarter of all political appointees in the executive office are working with some form of interim security clearance.
White House officials said Wednesday they would not comment, as is their policy, on the nature of security clearances. CNN also reported on the clearances earlier Wednesday evening. It is unclear whether some employees have had their clearance levels changed since mid-November.
The rain on your wedding day, of course, being…
An important election theme was the idea that Hillary Clinton was too careless. https://t.co/f1ybZwd1ZZ
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 15, 2018
Okay guys.
I’m starting to think that some of the passion Republicans mustered a couple of years back about scrupulous by-the-book handling of classified information wasn’t entirely sincere.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 15, 2018