Бывший работник Белого дома подробно объясняет, как работает система доступа к секретной информации:
News reports indicate that Porter was granted an “interim security clearance.” That certification is, indeed, quite common in the early days of an administration. Likewise, almost any new government employee who comes in contact with classified information - Secret, Top-Secret, and Top-Secret/Code Word intelligence - goes through this “interim” phase. If an employee receives an interim security clearance, he or she is allowed by law to serve in positions designated “National Security/ Non-Critical Sensitive” or “National Security/Critical Sensitive.” They cannot, however, be given a “Special Sensitive” job, which requires a different level of clearance: Top Secret/Special Compartmentalized Information - also known as TS/SCI or TS/CodeWord. Only employees with TS/SCI or CodeWord clearance can see our government’s most important secrets. Typically, the staff secretary is one of those very few people. One of the most important. What does that mean? It means that the most highly classified secrets in the U.S. government are limited to a very finite group of people. U.S. human intelligence sources may be embedded deep in the government offices in Beijing, or Tehran, or Moscow or Pyongyang - capitals that the Trump administration has identified as America’s prime competitors. If we have sources in those places, they are likely transmitting secrets back through secure channels to Washington. They would typically be given code words - say, Panda, Minaret, Ballerina and Kimchi. Within each of those channels, only a handful of people has access to top secret information. Those pieces of information are the high holy data of intelligence. Like the Host in a Catholic mass, they are the flesh and word of our all-knowing government - literally, the lives and intelligence of our deepest and most sensitive sources. Each channel is “compartmentalized.” That is, there are very few people who have access to both the Panda channel and the Ballerina channel. <...> So, in the coming days, it will be critical to know whether Priebus and Kelly, Flynn and McMaster, and/or the president himself knew about Porter’s security clearance status. Based on that knowledge, did they allow him access to Top Secret/CodeWord intelligence, including the President’s Daily Briefing? If they did know, and they allowed it, what made them feel so secure about Porter? If they did not know, then who exactly at the White House is protecting our national secrets? https://www.politico.com/magazine/amp/story/2018/02/10/rob-porter-john-kelly-national-security-216964
Казалось бы, прекрасная возможность для Конгресса проявить свою надзорную функцию. Это касается, в частности, комиссиии, которую возглавляет Трей Гауди.
“Gowdy said there were Trump-related matters that he did see falling within the Oversight panel’s purview,” including “procedures for issuance of security clearances.” Instead, you have refused all of our requests to obtain documents relating to security clearances despite the fact that we are the Committee of jurisdiction and that Republican and Democratic chairmen have investigated security clearance matters in the past. I ask you to reconsider your refusal to conduct oversight on this issue and finally put the full authority of the Committee behind a serious and credible investigation of White House security clearances. https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/documents/2018-02-08.EEC%20to%20TG%20re.security%20clearance%20process%20at%20WH.PDF
“I would want to know from Don McGahn and General Kelly and anyone else: What did you know, from whom did you hear it, to what extent did you hear it and then what actions, if any, did you take? The chronology is not favorable from the White House. When you have the head of the FBI saying we told you three times in 2017 and once more in 2018 for good measure then I think the really fair questions are: what were you told, by whom were you told it, did you have some reason to question what the bureau told you, and if none of that is true, why did you keep him on. So Don’s one person to ask, General Kelly is one person to ask, there may be others at the White House, but those are the questions going through my mind.”
Заявление Каммингса:
“I spoke personally with Chairman Gowdy this morning about the document requests the Committee is sending to the White House and the FBI, which are due in two weeks. My understanding is that this is a first step, and I look forward to interviewing White House Counsel Don McGahn, Chief of Staff John Kelly, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and others to determine what they knew and when they knew it, which Chairman Gowdy said he wanted to do during a press interview this morning. It is no secret that I have been extremely frustrated that our Committee has done nothing over the past year to address the completely dysfunctional security clearance system at the White House, despite my many requests. So I commend Chairman Gowdy for taking this preliminary step. But obviously-obviously-the credibility of this investigation will be judged by how thorough it is in obtaining documents and interviewing witnesses, and how bipartisan it is in its conclusions.” https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/cummings-issues-statement-on-oversight-committee-investigation-of-white-house
More than 130 political appointees working in the Executive Office of the President did not have permanent security clearances as of November 2017, including the president’s daughter, son-in-law and his top legal counsel, according to internal White House documents obtained by NBC News. Of those appointees working with interim clearances, 47 of them are in positions that report directly to President Donald Trump. About a quarter of all political appointees in the executive office are working with some form of interim security clearance. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/amp/scores-top-white-house-officials-lack-permanent-security-clearances-n848191
News reports indicate that Porter was granted an “interim security clearance.” That certification is, indeed, quite common in the early days of an administration. Likewise, almost any new government employee who comes in contact with classified information - Secret, Top-Secret, and Top-Secret/Code Word intelligence - goes through this “interim” phase.
If an employee receives an interim security clearance, he or she is allowed by law to serve in positions designated “National Security/ Non-Critical Sensitive” or “National Security/Critical Sensitive.” They cannot, however, be given a “Special Sensitive” job, which requires a different level of clearance: Top Secret/Special Compartmentalized Information - also known as TS/SCI or TS/CodeWord.
Only employees with TS/SCI or CodeWord clearance can see our government’s most important secrets. Typically, the staff secretary is one of those very few people. One of the most important.
What does that mean?
It means that the most highly classified secrets in the U.S. government are limited to a very finite group of people. U.S. human intelligence sources may be embedded deep in the government offices in Beijing, or Tehran, or Moscow or Pyongyang - capitals that the Trump administration has identified as America’s prime competitors. If we have sources in those places, they are likely transmitting secrets back through secure channels to Washington. They would typically be given code words - say, Panda, Minaret, Ballerina and Kimchi.
Within each of those channels, only a handful of people has access to top secret information. Those pieces of information are the high holy data of intelligence. Like the Host in a Catholic mass, they are the flesh and word of our all-knowing government - literally, the lives and intelligence of our deepest and most sensitive sources. Each channel is “compartmentalized.” That is, there are very few people who have access to both the Panda channel and the Ballerina channel. <...>
So, in the coming days, it will be critical to know whether Priebus and Kelly, Flynn and McMaster, and/or the president himself knew about Porter’s security clearance status. Based on that knowledge, did they allow him access to Top Secret/CodeWord intelligence, including the President’s Daily Briefing? If they did know, and they allowed it, what made them feel so secure about Porter?
If they did not know, then who exactly at the White House is protecting our national secrets?
https://www.politico.com/magazine/amp/story/2018/02/10/rob-porter-john-kelly-national-security-216964
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“Gowdy said there were Trump-related matters that he did see falling within the Oversight panel’s purview,” including “procedures for issuance of security clearances.”
Instead, you have refused all of our requests to obtain documents relating to security clearances despite the fact that we are the Committee of jurisdiction and that Republican and Democratic chairmen have investigated security clearance matters in the past.
I ask you to reconsider your refusal to conduct oversight on this issue and finally put the full authority of the Committee behind a serious and credible investigation of White House security clearances.
https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/documents/2018-02-08.EEC%20to%20TG%20re.security%20clearance%20process%20at%20WH.PDF
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“I would want to know from Don McGahn and General Kelly and anyone else: What did you know, from whom did you hear it, to what extent did you hear it and then what actions, if any, did you take? The chronology is not favorable from the White House. When you have the head of the FBI saying we told you three times in 2017 and once more in 2018 for good measure then I think the really fair questions are: what were you told, by whom were you told it, did you have some reason to question what the bureau told you, and if none of that is true, why did you keep him on. So Don’s one person to ask, General Kelly is one person to ask, there may be others at the White House, but those are the questions going through my mind.”
Заявление Каммингса:
“I spoke personally with Chairman Gowdy this morning about the document requests the Committee is sending to the White House and the FBI, which are due in two weeks. My understanding is that this is a first step, and I look forward to interviewing White House Counsel Don McGahn, Chief of Staff John Kelly, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and others to determine what they knew and when they knew it, which Chairman Gowdy said he wanted to do during a press interview this morning. It is no secret that I have been extremely frustrated that our Committee has done nothing over the past year to address the completely dysfunctional security clearance system at the White House, despite my many requests. So I commend Chairman Gowdy for taking this preliminary step. But obviously-obviously-the credibility of this investigation will be judged by how thorough it is in obtaining documents and interviewing witnesses, and how bipartisan it is in its conclusions.”
https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/cummings-issues-statement-on-oversight-committee-investigation-of-white-house
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More than 130 political appointees working in the Executive Office of the President did not have permanent security clearances as of November 2017, including the president’s daughter, son-in-law and his top legal counsel, according to internal White House documents obtained by NBC News.
Of those appointees working with interim clearances, 47 of them are in positions that report directly to President Donald Trump. About a quarter of all political appointees in the executive office are working with some form of interim security clearance.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/amp/scores-top-white-house-officials-lack-permanent-security-clearances-n848191
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