{"id":153,"date":"2024-11-11T07:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/trump-transition-staff-poised-to-access-national-security-secrets-justice-department-says\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T07:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:18:07","slug":"trump-transition-staff-poised-to-access-national-security-secrets-justice-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-transition-staff-poised-to-access-national-security-secrets-justice-department-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump transition staff poised to access national security secrets, Justice Department says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Justice Department issued its first official comment on the presidential transition Friday, indicating that officials there are prepared to help incoming advisers to President-elect Donald Trump get access to classified information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Justice is committed to ensuring an orderly and effective transition to the new Administration,\u201d the statement said. \u201cWe are prepared to deliver briefings to the transition team on our operations and responsibilities, and we stand ready to process requests for security clearances for those who will need access to national security information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The provision of security clearances to transition team members is overseen by the Office of Director of National Intelligence, but also involves the Justice Department and FBI, according to a report the Biden administration submitted to Congress earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>Once Trump is inaugurated in January, he will have sweeping power <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/03\/03\/mark-warner-jared-kushner-security-clearance-1200060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to <u>grant<\/u><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/08\/28\/trump-security-clearances-john-brennan-799052\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>revoke <\/u><\/a>clearances to people, regardless of the outcome of background checks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department issued its first official comment on the presidential transition Friday, indicating that officials there are prepared to help incoming advisers to President-elect Donald Trump get access to classified information. \u201cThe Department of Justice is committed to ensuring an orderly and effective transition to the new Administration,\u201d the statement said. \u201cWe are prepared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}