White House whistleblower testimony may prompt Dems to subpoena Trump team over security clearances

A Democratic-led House committee plans to subpoena a Trump administration official to discuss how the White House granted security clearances to people despite problems with their background checks.

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform meets Tuesday to discuss a subpoena for Carl Kline, the personnel security director during the first two years of the Trump presidency.

But the request is based on testimony to committee aides from a whistleblower, a longtime White House security adviser who said she and colleagues denied security clearances to some 25 applicants, but...