White House faces questions over security clearance for top Trump aide Natalie Harp
Former ethics tsar calls report that executive assistant to president worked for a year without clearance ‘shocking’ US politics live – latest updates The White House faced fresh questions on Thursday over whether Donald Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, had access to US government secrets without security clearance. Harp, who is executive assistant to the US president, worked at the White House for a year without
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- Joseph Gedeon and David Smith in Washington
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Former ethics tsar calls report that executive assistant to president worked for a year without clearance ‘shocking’ US politics live – latest updates The White House faced fresh questions on Thursday over whether Donald Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, had access to US government secrets without security clearance. Harp, who is executive assistant to the US president, worked at the White House for a year without
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White House faces questions over security clearance for top Trump aide Natalie Harp
Former ethics tsar calls report that executive assistant to president worked for a year without clearance ‘shocking’ US politics live – latest updates The White House faced fresh questions on Thursday over whether Donald Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, had access to US government secrets without security clearance. Harp, who is executive assistant to the US president, worked at the White House for a year without
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Trump administration faces questions over top aide Natalie Harp’s security clearance
Ex-White House ethics tsar calls it ‘shocking’ that executive assistant to US president didn’t have clearance for a year US politics live – latest updates The White House faced fresh questions on Thursday over whether Donald Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, had access to US government secrets without security clearance. Harp, who is executive assistant to the US president, worked at the White House for a year with
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