House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings told White House counsel Pat Cipollone that his committee plans to begin authorizing subpoenas beginning Tuesday.
More than two dozen people were granted security clearances or access to national security secrets by President Donald Trump's White House — despite recommendations from officials that they be denied, a whistleblower told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
According to Cummings, the whistleblower said during the March interview that the list of approximately 25 individuals whose denials were overruled"had a wide range of serious disqualifying issues involving foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct."
Cummings told Cipollone that his committee plans to begin authorizing subpoenas beginning at a business meeting Tuesday.Newbold, who has worked in the Executive Office of the President for 18 years, received a two-week suspension without pay in January for defying her supervisor, Carl Kline, NBC News reported at the time.
Newbold"agreed to identify herself publicly at this time because she strongly believes that Congress must intervene immediately to safeguard our national security," Cummings wrote.
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