President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has lost his top-secret security clearance, being downgraded along with the rest of the White House aides working on interim highest-level clearances to the "Secret" level, Politico reports.
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly moved Friday to revoke high-level access to classified information for White House employees whose background checks have been pending since before June 2017. Kushner had apparently been "resisting giving up his access to highly classified information," The New York Times reports. All aides with the interim highest-level clearances were informed of their statuses being downgraded Friday in a memo that was not signed by Kelly, Politico adds.
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