President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has been granted a permanent security clearance, a person briefed on the matter confirmed Wednesday.
For the past year, it was unclear if Kushner would in fact be granted a permanent clearance. He had maintained access to the president’s daily brief and intelligence summary through the use of an interim clearance.
“With respect to the news about his clearances, as we stated before, his application was properly submitted, reviewed by numerous career officials and underwent the normal process,” Kushner’s lawyer Abbe Lowell said, according to the New York Times. “Having completed all of these processes, he’s looking forward to continuing to do the work the president has asked him to do.”
White House officials have repeatedly said that the long timeline it took for Kushner to be cleared was not unusual for government officials with complicated financial histories and foreign contact.
Kushner’s clearance delay became a distraction and raised questions over whether investigators had discovered evidence that revealed he was a security threat, especially in the midst of the Russian probe.
