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Clearance process. this guy got into the system because he was a security guy. >> 83,000 private employees and contractors have top secret clearance. a half million. >> he was in one of the most important jobs. i think the people that are it administrators in charge, even if 29, ought to be federal employees and there ought to be supervision above them. he was one inch above the sheriff in about five jobs and the system didnt catch him. >> apparently he is in china saying he knows about protocol...

>> its possible. >> i havent gone into their clearance process or had anything to do with booz allen for six years. >> any thought about how damaging the leak is? >> i think its very damaging because it gives terrorists an idea of how we collect and what we might know. and you cant just inform the american people. youre informing the terrorists when you lay something like that out. its really kind of the function -- what theyve done is the functional equivalent of what stinson the secretary of s...

Heres a heads up, weve interviewed a guy in your city. >> normally theyre sitting side by side and discuss it and then they have meetings normally morning and afternoon meetings to discuss heres who weve looked at today, heres what weve got, heres the results of that. and everybody thats a participant in the jttf would be privy to the actual information about the investigation at the time of it. every member of the jttf goes through a clearance process by the fbi so theyre cleared top secret so ...

It is interesting because justice scalias confirmation vote was 98-0 in the senate. so he was using the fact that we have wonderful progress that we have that even the senators covered by section 5 have the need for the ongoing clearance process. so he went on the say this is must mean a racial entitlement and we as the court must step in, because we cannot trust congress. it was extraordinary statement and i would be surprised if a majority of the supreme court justices want to line up with tha...

State secrets, all that but americas spy agency is reportedly looking into whether sensors are redacting information for political reasons. catherine herridge is in washington tonight. catherine, its my understanding that a lot of this has to do with waterboarding. >> thats right, shep. former fbi agent who wrote the book black banner says it sailed through the clearance process at the fbi because his book does not support claims that waterboarding worked it was unexpectedly sent to the cia for ...

House legislative director marc short. mr. short, welcome back to "meet the press." >> chuck, thanks for having me back. >> as vice president pence and others have said that the white house could have handled this rob porter situation better, what were some of the missteps now that you can outline here that you hope to correct? >> well, lets put things in perspective. i think that rob is a friend to many of us in the administration. rob is somebody who is a rhodes scholar, is a harvard-educated ...

Topic. the nunes memo will be a topic. and also the clearance process, as you mentioned. there is no shortage of topics even before you get to russia and china and the worldwide threats. theyre supposed to talk about. >> malcolm, the democrats, and this is with the house intel committee. were listening to the senate today. have not been able to get permission to release their memo that they say provides the necessary context for the republican memo written by nunes and his staff defending the fb...

Essentially you have covering up domestic abuse and hiring that person and putting them in place despite the allegations. but you also have someone working with highly classified information that doesnt have the proper clearance. it is two wrapped up in a nice little bow. but it is also i think essentially what this trump white house is about. they put a domestic abuser in there because the fish rots on the head, as they say. >> so, rick, what is happening to john kellys credibility? how are the...

And the norm in this country is that people like you and fill out our background forms and the fbi determines whether or not we are a blackmail risk to the united states of america. it seems that as of today, jared kushner has not passed that test yet. >> well, youre right, nicolle, hes played a seminal role in foreign policy, the face and voice of the white house and thats parent, obvioimportant, . what this means is he cant see top-secret information. he has a secret clearance still. hes not c...

Was told earlier in the fall about these problems with rob porter getting his security clearance. apparently porter told mcgahn that the fbi brought these domestic violence allegations up in his fbi interview as a part of his clearance process. now, jennifer willoughby, the second ex-wife on television talking more about this publicly. here is what she said to say about the interactions shes had with rob porter since their marriage ended. >> another thing that he wanted me to say was that i had ...