Documents: Cummings Request for Documents Related to Security Clearance Processes and White House Response

Matthew Kahn
Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 3:11 PM

On March 1, House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings sent the following letter to White House counsel Pat Cipollone requesting documents related to the White House’s security clearance process in light of news reports that the president personally granted a top-secret clearance to Jared Kushner over the objections of security officials. Cipollone's response is below.

Cummings Request

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On March 1, House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings sent the following letter to White House counsel Pat Cipollone requesting documents related to the White House’s security clearance process in light of news reports that the president personally granted a top-secret clearance to Jared Kushner over the objections of security officials. Cipollone's response is below.

Cummings Request

Cipollone Response

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Matthew Kahn is a third-year law student at Harvard Law School and a contributor at Lawfare. Prior to law school, he worked for two years as an associate editor of Lawfare and as a junior researcher at the Brookings Institution. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2017.

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