House Oversight Democrats are intensifying their search for answers about White House security clearances, preparing a subpoena as soon as this week for the former White House personnel security director to testify.
In a new letter to White House counsel Pat Cipollone, Cummings details an interview with White House whistleblower Tricia Newbold, who currently serves as the adjudications manager in the personnel security office. Newbold told the committee that “she and other career officials adjudicated denials of dozens of applications for security clearance applications that were later overturned,” according to the letter.
“As a result, she warned that security clearance applications for White House officials ‘were not always adjudicated in the best interest ofDuring Newbold’s interview she revealed to the committee she kept a working list starting in 2018 of White House employees who were denied security clearances, but then later overturned, according the committee letter.
“According to Ms. Newbold, these individuals had a wide range of serious disqualifying issues involving foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct,” Cummings wrote in a separate memo to all members of the committee. Cummings also writes he is open to foregoing interviews with other White House officials if the White House produces documents related to a number of current and former White House employees, including Jared Kushner and
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