Kushner Omitted Meeting With Russians on Security Clearance Forms -<br />By JO BECKER and MATTHEW ROSENBERGAPRIL 6, 2017<br />When Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, sought the top-secret security clearance<br />that would give him access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets, he was required to disclose all encounters with foreign government officials over the last seven years.<br />Jamie Gorelick, Mr. Kushner’s lawyer, said that the questionnaire was submitted prematurely on Jan. 18, and<br />that the next day, Mr. Kushner’s office told the F. B.I.<br />Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump’s first national security adviser, had his security clearance suspended<br />and was fired for misleading Vice President Mike Pence about the content of phone calls with the Russian ambassador during the transition.<br />The Senate Intelligence Committee informed the White House weeks ago that, as part of its inquiry, it planned to question Mr. Kushner about the meetings<br />he arranged with Mr. Kislyak, including the one with Sergey N. Gorkov, a graduate of Russia’s spy school who now heads Vnesheconombank.<br />While officials can lose access to intelligence, or worse, for failing to disclose foreign contacts, the forms are often amended to address lapses.<br />Mr. Kushner’s aides said he was compiling that material and would share it when the F. B.I.
