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Article: After Year, 15 White House Aides Have Yet to Receive Security Clearances
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 11, 1994
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More than a year after President Clinton took office, 15 White
House aides, including press secretary Dee Dee Myers and another
unidentified senior official, have yet to receive security
clearances because they failed to complete necessary paperwork,
administration officials said.
As a result, Myers and the other aides have not received
permanent White House passes and are operating on "temporary
passes."
Those passes are given new employees to allow White House
access until FBI background checks are completed. Once checks are
made, the White House counsel's office clears employees and the
Secret Service determines if they should be given permanent White
House access.
"Frankly, I have ...