Kushner’s security clearance questioned at intel hearing

The director of the agency that conducts most government security clear- ance investigations told a Senate panel Wednesday that he would have had problems clearing anyone who failed to disclose financial ties to foreign governments — as White House adviser Jared Kushner failed to do.

“I would have a hard time overcoming that,” Charles Phalen Jr., director of the National Background Investigation Bureau at the Office of Personnel Management, said at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.

Kushner, President Trump’s son-inlaw, had his high-level interim security clearance downgraded last week, pending completion of a full-scale background check.