NEW: White House whistleblower Tricia Newbold asserts to Congress that the Trump admin. overruled 25 security clearance denials issued by career government employees, House Oversight Committee Chairman Cummings says in a letter released Monday.
The whistleblower, Tricia Newbold, told Congress that security clearance applications for White House officials "were not always adjudicated in the best interest of national security."J. Scott Applewhite / AP fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.The Trump administration overruled 25 security clearance denials issued by career government employees, a White House whistleblower told Congress.
“She has informed the Committee that during the Trump Administration, she and other career officials adjudicated denials of dozens of applications for security clearances that were later overturned,” Cummings wrote in a letter to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone."As a result, she warned that security clearance applications for White House officials 'were not always adjudicated in the best interest of national security,'" Cummings wrote.
Cummings revealed in the letter that Democratic members of his committee had conducted a “detailed, on-the-record interview” with Newbold, who works as the Adjudications Manager in the Personnel Security Office, a position that allows her to handle security clearance determinations for senior officials in the White House.
Newbold came forward and"agreed to identify herself publicly at this time because she strongly believes that Congress must intervene immediately to safeguard our national security," Cummings wrote."She implored the Committee to act now, warning that ‘this is my last hope to really bring the integrity back into our office,'" he wrote.
Cummings' committee, citing the White House's lack of cooperation with their investigation into the security clearance process, said it plans to subpoena Carl Kline, who was Newbold's supervisor when he worked as the Personnel Security Director at the White House during the first two years of the Trump Administration. Kline is now at the Department of Defense.
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