After weeks of White House stonewalling, House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, in a letter to the White House, said « I am now writing a final time to request your voluntary cooperation. » Cummings panel has subpoena power.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Democratic-led congressional panel on Friday demanded that the White House comply with requests for documents and witnesses for a probe into alleged security clearance abuses involving President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and others.
After weeks of White House stonewalling, House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, in a letter to the White House, said « I am now writing a final time to request your voluntary cooperation. » Cummings panel has subpoena power.
Cummings highlighted in his letter a New York Times story that said Trump ordered his former chief of staff John Kelly to provide Kushner with clearance over objections from Kelly and Donald McGahn, then White House counsel.
The Times said Kelly and McGahn both wrote memos about the incident and that McGahn outlined concerns raised about Kushner by career security officials, including CIA officers.
