Congress Receives Docs on Security Clearances for Kushner, Ivanka

The House Oversight Committee has received documents pertaining to the security clearances of White House advisors Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner that were withheld by the Trump Administration, Axios reports.

The panel requested documents about the process to grant staffers security clearances, but the White House rejected the demand as “unprecedented and extraordinarily intrusive” this week. However, Axios reports that the panel had already received leaked documents detailing the process of how Kushner and Trump obtained their security clearances, early last month.

A senior Democratic aide is quoted as saying that the documents are “part of the puzzle that we would be asking for… so we appreciate having this upfront.”

Axios obtained one document which noted why Kushner’s security clearance was downgraded in September 2017: "Per conversation with WH counsel the clearance was changed to interim Top Secret until we can confirm that the DOJ or someone else actually granted a final clearance. This action was taken out of an abundance of caution because the background investigation has not been completed."

The document also notes that the downgrade came at the direction of then-White House chief of staff John Kelly.

The White House and the House Oversight Committee both declined to comment.

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