Top secret security clearance ripped from 30 White House aides: Report

Published March 1, 2018 12:37am ET



More than 30 Trump administration officials with interim security clearances will be stripped of their access to top secret intelligence, according to a report.

The aides’ interim clearances will be downgraded to secret level to align with White House chief of staff John Kelly’s new policy of not permitting temporary clearances at a top secret or sensitive compartmented information level, per Bloomberg.

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