{"id":33852,"date":"2019-03-02T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33852"},"modified":"2019-03-02T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T19:22:17","slug":"democrats-demand-information-on-kushners-security-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33852","title":{"rendered":"Democrats demand information on Kushner&#8217;s security clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"71.5277310924\">\n<p>The New York Times has reported that US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/11\/profile-president-donald-trump-161109050153947.html\">Donald Trump<\/a> had ordered his chief of staff, John Kelly, to issue Jared Kushner, Trump&#8217;s son-in-law a security clearance after claiming that he had played no role in the decision.<\/p>\n<p>However, it remains unclear whether Kelly was ordered to give the clearance or simply felt pressured to do so, although Kelly wrote a memo outlining his concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Democrats have vowed to pursue the matter, and they want to know why officials were reluctant to give Kushner a security clearance in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Shihab Rattansi reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has reported that US President Donald Trump had ordered his chief of staff, John Kelly, to issue Jared Kushner, Trump&#8217;s son-in-law a security clearance after claiming that he had played no role in the decision. However, it remains unclear whether Kelly was ordered to give the clearance or simply felt pressured&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}