Top White House Official Under Fire Over Denial of Security Clearance

Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 10, 2017 | Adam Kredo

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Lawmakers and congressional insiders continue to raise questions about a senior Obama administration official and proponent of its Iran diplomacy following revelations he was denied interim security clearance before being given a senior role in the White House, according to conversations with multiple sources.

The Washington Free Beacon first disclosed last week that Ben Rhodes, a White House deputy national security adviser who handled the administration’s efforts to mislead the public about the terms of the Iran nuclear agreement, is being probed by Congress following disclosures the FBI may have denied him top-level security clearances.

Lawmakers told the Free Beacon that the Obama administration has been obstructing formal efforts to obtain information about why Rhodes was initially denied FBI clearance and how he ultimately received top-secret clearances.

The latest disclosures have cast a cloud over the Obama administration’s diplomacy with Iran just weeks before the president and his senior officials vacate their West Wing offices ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

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There must be a law or two that was broken here!?!

[BenLurkin]

Could Obama have got a security clearance?

[G Larry]

When the goal of the POTUS is to destroy America, its likely his staff won’t be cleared to “protect and defend”.

[hal ogen]

Yes...from iran.

[pgkdan]

Let’s be honest here, in a sane world obama would not be eligible for a security clearance. practically nobody in his 2009 cabinet or WH would be eligible.

[MNGal]

IIRC Ben Rhodes is the official who helped construct the story of the video being the cause of the ‘impromptu demonstration’ and attack @ Benghazi.

[T-Bird45]

If anything verifies that we are not in a sane world, it’s exactly what you’ve pointed out. There is no way Obama could have passed the background investigation required for a nuclear clearance as I experienced it in the 70s. No way on God’s green earth...

[Unam Sanctam]

Isn’t he the brother of the head of CBS news?

[cardinal4]

Could Obama have got a security clearance?

His "inconsistencies" with his past should have denied him..

[pgkdan]

That’s him.

[mbynack]

Could Obama have got a security clearance?

I'm not sure if this is still true, but when I was a security specialist 25 years ago, the President was not required to have a clearance.

[UCANSEE2]

Ben Rhoades. Where have I seen that name before ?

OH yeah.

[lakecumberlandvet]

I don’t think there is a single member of the 0bama regime, including the poser himself, that could legitimately pass a background check for a security clearance.

[bgill]

This non-vetting bs started with the Terrorist in Chief himself. It will end Jan. 20.

[apillar]

Denied a Security Clearance?!? He must have had some real dirt in his past. A security clearance use to be difficult to get, but the requirements were gutted during the Clinton years, (rumor has it because the vast majority of his team would have been rejected otherwise.) Now days very little can actually cause you to be rejected, short of an extensive criminal history, things that, in the past, would result in a quick rejection like drug use, mental illness, sexual deviancy and financial problems have been all but removed as factors except in the most extreme cases.

[goodnesswins]

Note... for our Inaugural Ball

[Stayfree]

Back at the beginning of Obama’s destruction of America, a former top official said that there is no way in Hell that the White House Commie could ever get a top security clearance,,,

[Robert A Cook PE]

Now days very little can actually cause you to be rejected, short of an extensive criminal history, things that, in the past, would result in a quick rejection like drug use, mental illness, sexual deviancy and financial problems have been all but removed as factors except in the most extreme cases.

Those factors are resume-enhancement (hell, resume-REQUIREMENTS) for the Oboma administration in today's world!

[Verbosus]

His association will Bill Ayers would have eliminated him.

[Cheerio]

IIRC Ben Rhodes is the official who helped construct the story of the video being the cause of the ‘impromptu demonstration’ and attack @ Benghazi.

Ben Rhodes IS a fiction author.
Everything changed that day. But the way it changed Ben Rhodes’s life is still unique, and perhaps not strictly believable, even as fiction. He was in the second year of the M.F.A. program at N.Y.U., writing short stories about losers in garden apartments and imagining that soon he would be published in literary magazines, acquire an agent and produce a novel by the time he turned 26

Ben Rhodes’s Fiction Behind the “Iran Deal”