WH Whistleblower Who Advised Against Jared Kushner's Security Clearance Seeks Protection From Feds
White House Security Specialist Tricia Newbold filed a whistleblower complaint with the OSC after her supervisor, Carl Kline, suspended her without pay for two weeks recently, after Newbold accused Kline of “repeatedly mishandling files and approving unwarranted security clearances” — one of them being first son-in-law Jared Kushner’s. NBC News:
Newbold says in the complaint that she “questioned why we were treating this individual any differently than we would any other individual.”
The complaint claims Kline then shut down the discussion saying, “he would not address this matter further.”
Newbold’s complaint says she raised concerns with Kline again on the same individual, identified by sources as Kushner, on Aug. 21, 2017.
The complaint states that Kline “advised I should ‘watch myself.’"
Months later,
Kline approved top-secret clearance for Kushner, overruling the determination by Newbold and one other career White House security specialist,
The career staffers
rejected Kushner’s top-secret application because of concerns about his foreign contacts that were detailed in his FBI background investigation,
In a perverse side note,
Newbold also filed an Equal Employment Opportunity complaint against Kline,
claiming that he was discriminating against her because of her height.
Newbold suffers from a rare form of dwarfism and
Kline was placing files out of her reach,
saying that she could ask her staff to get them for her.
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