Legal experts enraged over White House security clearance revelations: ‘This is insane’

White House whistleblower revealed that senior Trump administration officials intervened to grant security clearance to more than two dozen officials who were initially denied access to top-secret information.

Tricia Newbold, who works in the White House Personnel Security Office, told Congress last month that she kept a list of up to 25 people, some of whom had daily access to President Donald Trump, who had been granted access to highly sensitive material despite serious disqualifying issues such as foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use and criminal conduct.

Law enforcement and national security experts were aghast at the revelations.