In the flurry of President Donald Trump’s first two weeks in office, the new administration ordered that an unknown number of people be granted immediate access to top secret classified information. Democrats and other critics are now demanding that the White House disclose the list and details of the people Trump allowed to skip background checks and gain access to the country's most sensitive secrets.
On Jan. 20, Trump ordered White House Counsel David Warrington to provide the White House Security Office a list of personnel to grant immediate Top Secret (TS) and Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (SCI) clearances, proclaiming it “necessary to perform the duties of the office to which they have been hired." That list, he added, could expand "as necessary."
