House Oversight Committee issues subpoenas in security clearances and census investigations

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The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday served four subpoenas as part of its investigations into the White House's security clearance process and the Trump administration's attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

A whistleblower from the White House Personnel Security Office told Congress that career officials in her department rejected dozens of White House security clearances, but they were overruled in 25 cases. One of the subpoenas was served to former White House Personnel Security Director Carl Kline, and the committee's chairman, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), said he hopes "this is the last subpoena we need to issue on this topic and that the White House agrees to cooperate, to schedule interviews for the next four officials we want to interview, and to turn over the documents we have been seeking for months."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.