Not sure how closely people looked at the Washington Post article regarding Jared's interim security clearance getting downgraded and the all but certain decision that he should not be granted Top Secret clearance or above.
The article starts as follows
https://www.washingt...m=.6d360d2986c7
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Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience, according to current and former U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports on the matter.
Among those nations discussing ways to influence Kushner to their advantage were the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel and Mexico, the current and former officials said.
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H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s national security adviser, learned that Kushner had contacts with foreign officials that he did not coordinate through the National Security Council or officially report. The issue of foreign officials talking about their meetings with Kushner and their perceptions of his vulnerabilities was a subject raised in McMaster’s daily intelligence briefings, according to the current and former officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
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Officials in the White House were concerned that Kushner was “naive and being tricked” in conversations with foreign officials, some of whom said they wanted to deal only with Kushner directly and not more experienced personnel, said one former White House official.
Just in case people aren't sure what happened here
1. US intelligence agencies were monitoring private communications between members of the Chinese and Israeli government
2. These communications revealed that said officials believed that Kushner could be manipulated
3. Kushner failed to disclose meetings that he was having to the White House
4. Someone in the US government decided to leak this information to the post in order to put a knife in Kushner's back
Lawfare's Rational Security podcast has a good take on this all this AM