Mar 3, 2019

March 1, 2019: Hare Kushner, Abundance of Caution, Stinking Turd Beneath


Hare Kushner, Hare Kushner,
Kushner, Kushner, Hare Hare”

In Sanskrit, Hare (pronounced Hari) in here used in “the vocative form of Hari, another name of Vishnu, meaning 'he who removes illusion'. Another interpretation is he “He who is all-attractive, ” (1) as in Kushner playing Ken to Ivanka's trailer trash Barbie.

The New York Times, in a front-page story, reported today that our Caesar Disgustus overruled his own government and granted security clearances to his daughter and son-in-law. Jared Kushner had been flagged by intelligence officials as well as Don McGahn, then serving as White House legal adviser. When the family complained, whining that they were being “targeted for petty reasons”, Disgustus went to his chief-of-staff and ordered that they be granted clearances. (2)

It is not known precisely what factors led to the problems with Mr. Kushner's security clearance. Officials had raised questions about his own and his family's real estate business's ties to foreign governments and investors, and about initially unreported contacts he had with foreigners.”(3) The Times does not get specific here, but the article is alluding to reports that United States foreign policy has appeared, at times, to hinge upon favorable treatment of Kushner in his quest to secure funding to finance that huge debt on the property at 666 Fifth Avenue. Kushner, aping his father-in-law, bought the property in 2007 at about twice what it was worth, just as the real estate market was about to tank, leaving him “under water”--that is, owing much more than the property is worth—to the tune of well over a billion dollars. This alone would have flagged any application for access to top-secret information. Add to this his participation at the tRUMP Tower meeting with the Russians during the campaign, as well as initially unreported meetings with the Russian ambassador and with officials of a Russian bank under U.S. Sanctions, and it is no wonder that authorities balked.

Initially, reports The Times, Mr. Kushner...operated with a provisional clearance as his background check proceeded. In an entry to Mr. Kushner's personnel file on Sept. 15, 2017, the head of the personnel security division, Carl Kline wrote, '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 final clearance. This action is out of an abundance of caution because the background investigation has not been competed.” (4)

The question of the Kushner's clearances were raised when it was revealed that former presidential aide Rob Porter was working with a temporary clearance, as were several others, nearly a year into the administration.

In May 2018, the White House Council's Office, which at the time was led by Mr. McGahn, recommended to Mr. Trump that Mr. Kushner not be given a clearance at that level. But the next day, Mr. Trump ordered Mr. Kelly to grant it to Mr. Kushner anyway...

The question of Mr. Kushner's access to intelligence was a flash point almost from the beginning of the administration. The initial background check into Mr. Kushner dragged on for more than a year, creating a distraction for the White House, which struggled to explain why one of the people closest to the president had yet to be given the proper approval to be trusted with the country's most sensitive information” (5)

Indeed, it has.

So Jared takes his wife into the oval office and whine that the were being unfairly treated. Jared's clearance, following the Porter scandal, had been downgraded from Top Secret to merely 'Secret', which, as former security expert Malcomb Nance has observed, meant that he couldn't function as plenipotentiary charged with negotiating, among other things in his vast 'portfolio', peace in the Middle East.

When ordered to upgrade Jared's credentials, both Chief of Staff John Kelly and White House Legal Counsel McGahn balked, agreeing to issue the orders but then filing statements that they were ordered to do so.

There is only one reason that one puts such notations in the files and that is to cover your ass.

The question is “ what in Jared and Ivanka's files warrants this 'abundance of caution'?” Could it be the attempts to reach out to foreign governments and banks—some of which are sanctioned by the U.S. government—in order to find funding to keep the Kushner real estate 'empire' afloat? What about the patent licenses issued by the Chinese government to Ivanka and her brands? There are other questions, what was Jared's role in moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and what was the personal pay-off? What really lies behind the U.S. Cessation of aid to the Palestinian Authorities? What was the pay off? We need to know the answers to these and many more questions.

A recent report by NBC revealed that Mr. Kline had overruled two career security specialists who had rejected Mr. Kushner's application based on the F.B.I.'s concerns...Mr. Kline was acting on the directive sent down by the president, one of the people familiar with the matter said.” (6)

Of course both Disgustus and his larvae have denied any involvement, and Jared remains transfixed as sphinx. Boldface lies. Why are they lying? What are they trying to hide?

The only defense appears to be a combination of demonstrable gross incompetence and the constitutional inability to tell truth. It was revealed that in yet another unprecedented discovery in which the White House had failed to do due diligence, Kline overruled others and granted security clearances to over 30 other White House aides.

The pungent odor wafting from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue exceeds anything in the American experience. Kushner and trailer trash Barbie are helping us brush back the flies swarming about, to reveal the stinking turd that lies beneath.

An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”

Impeach and Imprison.

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  1. Haberman, Maggie., Schmidt, Michael S., Goldman, Adam., and Karni, Annie. “Trump Forced Top-Secret Clearance for Kushner” The New York Times. Friday, March 1, 2019. Pages 1 & A15
  2. Ibid. Page A15.
  3. Ibid
  4. Ibid
  5. Ibid












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