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Saturday, November 30, 2024

Donald Trump's transition team is planning for all political appointees to receive sweeping security clearances on the first day and only face FBI background checks after the incoming administration takes over the bureau and its own officials are installed in key positions, according to people familiar with the matter.

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... The move appears to mean that Trump's team will continue to skirt FBI vetting and may not receive classified briefings until Trump is sworn in on 20 January and unilaterally grant sweeping security clearances across the administration.

Trump's team has regarded the FBI background check process with contempt for months, a product of their deep distrust of the bureau ever since officials turned over transition records to the Russia investigation during the first Trump presidency, the people said.

But delaying FBI vetting could also bring ancillary PR benefits for the Trump team if some political appointees run into problems during a background check, which could upend their Senate confirmation process, or if they struggle to obtain security clearances once in the White House. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-29 07:48 PM | Reply

No problem, I mean, what could vetting possibly turn up?

Russian Ex-Spy Pressured Manafort Over Debts to an Oligarch (2018)
time.com

... When the U.S. government put out its latest sanctions list on Dec. 19, the man named at the top did not seem especially important. Described in the document as a former Russian intelligence officer, he was accused of handling money and negotiations on behalf of a powerful Russian oligarch. The document did not mention that the man, Victor Boyarkin, had links to the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump.

A months-long investigation by TIME, however, found that Boyarkin, a former arms dealer with a high forehead and a very low profile, was a key link between a senior member of the Trump campaign and a powerful ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In his only interview with the media about those connections, Boyarkin told TIME this fall that he was in touch with Trump's then-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in the heat of the presidential race on behalf of the Russian oligarch. "He owed us a lot of money," Boyarkin says. "And he was offering ways to pay it back." ...


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Paul Manafort Joined The Trump Campaign In A State Of 'Despair And Desperation' (2018)
www.npr.org

... Financially, Paul Manafort was struggling. He owed a Russian oligarch nearly $20 million, and that Russian oligarch wasn't going to let go of that debt. ...


Yeah, so vetting does not seem to be important to the Trump-elect admin?


So, the head of the 2016 Trump campaign was indebted to Russian(s)?


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-29 07:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

The mafia will be running our country

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-11-30 09:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

And yet Obama was nearly impeached for wearing a tan suit. I'll wager some in the intelligence community will be giving out disinformation so as to set up Trump apparatchiks for future prosecution for espionage ...

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2024-11-30 09:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What could possibly go wrong?

#5 | Posted by MadMikeMcGonzo at 2024-11-30 11:26 PM | Reply

Welcome to Trumplandia.

Everyone gets a clearance!

And a box of classified documents to sell.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-01 11:15 AM | Reply

RFK Jr and Donald Trump are convicted felons. Neither should have any level of clearance.

#7 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-12-01 02:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Why need to vet? After all, it's not if any others...or all of...Trump's previous picks had skeletons in their closets!

#8 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-12-02 02:41 PM | Reply

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