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The Government of Solomon Islands did not respond to the U.S. Government's request for diplomatic clearance for the vessel to refuel and provision in Honiara, the U.S. Department of State is in contact with the Government of the Solomon Islands and expect all future clearances will be provided to United States. – Kristin Kam	Found on CNN 1 year ago
A lot of clearances were at different levels. – Michael Pack	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If at the end of the day we don't receive the clearances. – Mark Zuckerberg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We still have no idea why the president's daughter and son-in-law were given clearances. – Oversight Committee	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
White House staffers get to have oversight, white House staffers have oversight over White House security clearances. For example, White House staffers have gotten involved in the outsourcing of White House security clearances, White House staffers have gotten involved in the backlog. That isn't exclusively an executive branch function. White House staffers have every right to exercise White House staffers constitutional role. – The President	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There weren't any, other than a backlog that exists of close to a million clearances across government, this isn't new. This was happening under the Obama administration, the Clinton administration. There are literally close to a million people in the federal government who are in the pipeline to get their permanent clearance and are on temporary status. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If my clearances and my reputation, as I'm being pulled through the mud now, if that's the price we're going to pay to prevent Donald Trump from doing this against other people, to me it's a small price to pay, so I am going to do whatever I can personally to try to prevent these abuses in the future, and if it means going to court, I will do that. – John Brennan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If my clearances and my reputation, as I'm being pulled through the mud now, if that's the price we're going to pay to prevent Donald Trump from doing this against other people, to me it's a small price to pay. – Former CIA director John Brennan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Faster clearances can certainly compromise the quality of evaluation, by standardizing terms of references for various sectors the government has tried to reduce time in the environment clearance process. This is not a bad step. But in order to reduce time, it has exempted public hearing for some important sectors. This is extremely problematic. – Srestha Banerjee	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
More than 30 aides to President Donald Trump have been stripped of access to top secret intelligence, two people familiar with the move said. The officials have been notified that they will be downgraded to lower-level ‘secret’ interim security clearances, said the two people. … All of the officials whose clearances were downgraded held the top secret designation on an interim basis. [Chief of Staff John Kelly] set a new policy that took effect last week that permits interim clearances only at the secret level and not permitting temporary clearances at higher levels. … Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley this week called for answers from the White House and the FBI about reports that dozens of top officials still lacked a full security clearance and that some them, including [Jared Kushner], had access to the highly classified President’s Daily Brief prepared by intelligence agencies. – Senate Intel	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Nominees for president and vice president receive these classified briefings by virtue of their status as candidates, and do not require separate security clearances before the briefings, candidates are advised of the classified nature of the material, and operation and policy matters are not addressed. – National Intelligence James Clapper	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Our first priority is protecting the safety of our residents, given the terrible situation in Paris, I've directed that we put on hold our efforts to accept new refugees until the U.S. Department of Homeland Security completes a full review of security clearances and procedures. – Rick Snyder	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Individually, the OPM breach and the Ashley Madison breach both present significant dangers to U.S. personnel, including intelligence personnel, but taken together, they really ratchet up the level of harm, the OPM breach has confidential information about U.S. personnel and people that have applied for security clearances, and the Ashley Madison breach reveals people's most intimate secrets about the affairs they might be having, and together, it provides a lot of leverage that could be used to blackmail and possibly influence U.S. personnel. – Marc Zwillinger	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The database responsible for handling biometric clearances has been rebuilt and ... is being tested. – State Department spokesman John Kirby	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Someone at a high-enough level with the proper clearances knew that this man had been abducted, and yet they brought charges forward anyway. – Haytham Faraj	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

The Government of Solomon Islands did not respond to the U.S. Government's request for diplomatic clearance for the vessel to refuel and provision in Honiara, the U.S. Department of State is in contact with the Government of the Solomon Islands and expect all future clearances will be provided to United States.

– Kristin Kam

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of clearances were at different levels.

– Michael Pack

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If at the end of the day we don't receive the clearances.

– Mark Zuckerberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We still have no idea why the president's daughter and son-in-law were given clearances.

– Oversight Committee

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

White House staffers get to have oversight, white House staffers have oversight over White House security clearances. For example, White House staffers have gotten involved in the outsourcing of White House security clearances, White House staffers have gotten involved in the backlog. That isn't exclusively an executive branch function. White House staffers have every right to exercise White House staffers constitutional role.

– The President

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There weren't any, other than a backlog that exists of close to a million clearances across government, this isn't new. This was happening under the Obama administration, the Clinton administration. There are literally close to a million people in the federal government who are in the pipeline to get their permanent clearance and are on temporary status.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If my clearances and my reputation, as I'm being pulled through the mud now, if that's the price we're going to pay to prevent Donald Trump from doing this against other people, to me it's a small price to pay, so I am going to do whatever I can personally to try to prevent these abuses in the future, and if it means going to court, I will do that.

– John Brennan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

– Former CIA director John Brennan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Faster clearances can certainly compromise the quality of evaluation, by standardizing terms of references for various sectors the government has tried to reduce time in the environment clearance process. This is not a bad step. But in order to reduce time, it has exempted public hearing for some important sectors. This is extremely problematic.

– Srestha Banerjee

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

More than 30 aides to President Donald Trump have been stripped of access to top secret intelligence, two people familiar with the move said. The officials have been notified that they will be downgraded to lower-level ‘secret’ interim security clearances, said the two people. … All of the officials whose clearances were downgraded held the top secret designation on an interim basis. [Chief of Staff John Kelly] set a new policy that took effect last week that permits interim clearances only at the secret level and not permitting temporary clearances at higher levels. … Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley this week called for answers from the White House and the FBI about reports that dozens of top officials still lacked a full security clearance and that some them, including [Jared Kushner], had access to the highly classified President’s Daily Brief prepared by intelligence agencies.

– Senate Intel

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Nominees for president and vice president receive these classified briefings by virtue of their status as candidates, and do not require separate security clearances before the briefings, candidates are advised of the classified nature of the material, and operation and policy matters are not addressed.

– National Intelligence James Clapper

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Our first priority is protecting the safety of our residents, given the terrible situation in Paris, I've directed that we put on hold our efforts to accept new refugees until the U.S. Department of Homeland Security completes a full review of security clearances and procedures.

– Rick Snyder

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Individually, the OPM breach and the Ashley Madison breach both present significant dangers to U.S. personnel, including intelligence personnel, but taken together, they really ratchet up the level of harm, the OPM breach has confidential information about U.S. personnel and people that have applied for security clearances, and the Ashley Madison breach reveals people's most intimate secrets about the affairs they might be having, and together, it provides a lot of leverage that could be used to blackmail and possibly influence U.S. personnel.

– Marc Zwillinger

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The database responsible for handling biometric clearances has been rebuilt and ... is being tested.

– State Department spokesman John Kirby

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Someone at a high-enough level with the proper clearances knew that this man had been abducted, and yet they brought charges forward anyway.

– Haytham Faraj

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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