Security Clearances
Security Clearances
Chairman Cummings is committed to conducting vigorous oversight of our nation's security clearance processes. Deficiencies in this process may represent urgent and grave risks to our national security, not only with respect to systemic challenges, but also with respect to specific individuals who should not have access to our nation's most highly guarded secrets.
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Washington, D.C. (March 27, 2025)—Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, led Committee Democrats in introducing a Resolution of Inquiry to investigate whether Elon Musk and DOGE affiliates actually have security clearances.
Washington, D.C. (Feb. 25, 2020)—Today, Rep. Carolyn B.
Washington, D.C. (Oct. 31, 2019)—Today, Rep. Gerry Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, and Rep. Stephen F.
Washington, D.C. (Apr. 27, 2019)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to former White House Personnel Security Director Carl Kline scheduling a transcribed interview for this coming Wednesday as part of the Committee's investigation into White House security clearances. Kline failed to show up last week for a deposition pursuant to a subpoena issued by the Committee.
Washington, D.C. (Apr. 23, 2019)— This morning at 9 a.m., Democratic and Republican investigators on the Committee on Oversight and Reform convened the scheduled deposition of White House Personnel Security Director Carl Kline, which was ordered by a subpoena issued by the Committee on April 2. Mr. Kline did not appear for his deposition. The White House informed the Committee that it ordered Mr. Kline not to appear, but the President has not asserted any Constitutional or other privilege that would have relieved Mr. |
Washington, D.C. (Apr. 2, 2019)—Today, the Committee on Oversight and Reform voted to authorize Chairman Elijah E. Cummings to issue a subpoena for testimony to President Trump's former White House Personnel Security Director and three additional subpoenas relating to the Trump Administration's secret efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. One Republican Committee Member voted in favor of the census-related subpoenas.
Cummings has now served all four subpoenas.
Security Clearance Subpoena