House investigators urge ?immediate? compliance from White House on security clearance documents

Cummings (D-Md.), in a letter to the White House on Friday, urged “full and immediate compliance” with outstanding requests the panel had made related to security clearances for much of the past two years.“I am now writing a final time to request your voluntary cooperation with this investigation,” Cummings said in the letter to White House counsel Pat Cipollone.[Trump demanded top-secret security clearance for Jared Kushner last year despite concerns of John Kelly and intelligence officials]While Cummings did not use the word subpoena in his letter, his recent correspondence with the White House suggested he is open to one: Cummings told the White House in early February to let the committee know “whether you intend to comply voluntarily or whether the committee should consider alternative means to obtain this information.”The White House still has not given the panel documents, arguing instead that the president traditionally has broad authority over his executive staff and clearance matters. “These new reports raise grave questions about what derogatory information career officials obtained about Mr. Kushner to recommend denying him access to our nation's most sensitive secrets, why President Trump concealed his role in overruling that recommendation, and why General Kelly and Mr. McGahn both felt compelled to document these actions, and why your office is continuing to withhold key documents and witnesses from this committee,” Cummings wrote Friday.The White House security clearance process has been a major focus for Oversight Committee Democrats over the past two years.