Duncan Black highlights the layers of stupidity in this security clearance story with his comment on this at Eschaton:
WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials and the White House’s top lawyer, four people briefed on the matter said.
Mr. Trump’s decision in May so troubled senior administration officials that at least one, the White House chief of staff at the time, John F. Kelly, wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been “ordered” to give Mr. Kushner the top-secret clearance.
Oh wow Kelly wrote a contemporaneous internal memo. We are led by such heroes.
Jared Kushner is one creepy looking motherfucker