Political Quotes

“The other thing that we have to consider is this: right now, there is a person who is in the White House who has lied on their security clearance--a security clearance that we use to determine whether we shall trust somebody with this top secret information for this country. Jared Kushner was in a meeting with a foreign agent. Now we know that he was in a meeting not just with a foreign agent but a former-- ``former'' Soviet counterintelligence officer. Let me tell you something. There is no such thing as former counterintelligence officers if you ever work with the Soviets. Once you are in the KGB, you are always in the KGB. Why was that person in that room? It was not to talk about adoption. He certainly wasn't there to talk about anything else. But, if anything, he was there to pass information. The fact that Jared Kushner lied in his clearance, lied and omitted it until finally revealed today, really calls into question whether that man should be in the White House right now and trusted with this type of sensitive information. Ted, you and I were in the military. We both had security clearances. If we had this type of omission in our security clearance, what would have been our punishments?”