Former Ambassador Rep. Don Beyer shared a security clearance form containing directions that you must fill out a declaration of all foreign contacts by the clearance holder “or your spouse.”
Ivanka Trump’s spouse is Jared Kushner.
Jared Kushner's updates to his security clearance form related to this Russia meeting raise new questions about his wife, Ivanka Trump 1/ https://t.co/AJbv3CRe2n
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 14, 2017
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That form, the SF-86, which I completed for a diplomatic post in the Obama Administration, contains directions which we must now consider 2/
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 14, 2017
The SF-86 requires declaration of all foreign contacts by the clearance holder "or your spouse." Ivanka Trump's spouse is Jared Kushner. 3/ pic.twitter.com/t7nxwrEqdC
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 14, 2017
When Ivanka Trump received her top secret security clearance and filled out an SF-86, Kushner's contacts mattered 4/ https://t.co/TNAE5A0t8q
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 14, 2017
Kushner updated his SF-86 3 times, most recently to include the June 2016 meeting w/ Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya 5/ https://t.co/rxhNgLYaSt
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 14, 2017
That meeting, as we now know, was offered by people connected to Putin as "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump." 6/
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 14, 2017
Did Ivanka Trump include that meeting on her SF-86 to obtain a security clearance, as part of her disclosure of her husband's contacts? 7/
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 14, 2017
If she did not declare it before, has Ivanka Trump's SF-86 been updated to include disclosure of this meeting which her husband attended? 8/
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 14, 2017
Has she updated her security clearance paperwork to reflect the other meetings and contacts Jared Kushner originally failed to disclose? 9/
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 14, 2017
Ivanka Trump is an adviser to the President of the United States. We hold people in such a position to a very high standard. 10/
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 14, 2017
That standard requires that we get answers to these questions about Ivanka Trump. I intend to raise them with the Trump Administration. 11/
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 14, 2017
If the President wants his family to run the government, they must be held to the same high standard as any other government official. 12/12
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 14, 2017
Rep. Beyer is right to point out that Trump has put Ivanka and her husband in high positions in our government, and therefore they must abide by the same rules as anyone else. They are not just the President’s children.
Ivanka Trump is getting attention now because of revelations this week that her husband, Jared Kushner, was also in attendance in a Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. and Russian officials ostensibly in order to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. This meeting is just one chapter in the ongoing theme of deception when it comes to the Trump administration and Russia.
So the question is raised: Did Ivanka Trump disclose the meetings that Jared updated his security forms three times to mention? The form asks that you identify any contact had by you or any member of your immediate family in the past seven years “with a foreign government, its establishment (such as embassy, consulate, agency, military service, intelligence or security service, etc.) or its representatives, whether inside or outside the U.S.?”
Immediate family is your spouse, parents, and siblings. The penalty for knowingly falsifying or concealing information is fines and or up to five years in prison.
The U.S. Criminal Code (title 18, section 1001) provides that knowingly falsifying or concealing a material fact is a felony which may result in fines and/or up to five (5) years imprisonment. In addition, Federal agencies generally fire, do not grant a security clearance, or disqualify individuals who have materially and deliberately falsified these forms, and this remains a part of the permanent record for future placements.
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