“Very unusual”: the White House interrupts the checks of the FBI history for senior executives, moves them to the Pentagon: Sources

The White House has quietly ordered the FBI to stop the process of verifying the history for dozens of better members of the staff of President Donald Trump and transferred the process to the Pentagon, said sources familiar with the case in ABC News.

The directive came last month after the agents are responsible for finishing the background inquiries carried out interviews with a handful of best aids in the White House – a standard part of the process of checking the history.

Officials of the White House took the unusual measure of ordering a stop of investigations on the checking of the history after judging the process too intrusive, sources said.

The procedure generally involves in -depth interviews as well as an examination of financial files, foreign contacts, past employment and any potential security risk.

The White House has rather decided to transfer the process of verifying the history of the White House staff to the Ministry of Defense to make the checks, the sources said.

A former FBI official told ABC News that the approach was “very unusual”.

“If all this is true, and if you apply it to everything that has been historically in the presentation of the FBI, then it would break this precedent History, for a long time and very unusual,” said a former FBI official at ABC News. “It would be very unusual that this was removed from the FBI now, for any reason, and given to DOD or another agency.”

The director of the newly installed FBI, Kash Patel, told ABC News in a press release: “The FBI is relentlessly concentrated on our mission of reconstruction of confidence, to restore the law and of the order and to let the good agents be good agents – and we have fully the confidence that the DOD can meet all the needs in the release process.”

Pentagon representatives have returned questions about the question to the White House.

The process of verification of the history was interrupted just a few days before the Pate was confirmed by the Senate on February 20, the sources said. The FBI still conducts background inquiries for positions requiring confirmation of the Senate, the sources said.

The Pentagon Defense Counteration and Security Agency (DCSA) performs most of the fundamental surveys of the federal government. The FBI exercises surveys for those appointed to the presidential election who require confirmation from the Senate as well as other people named presidential, including the staff of the White House.

Historically, administrations have relied on the process of verifying the FBI history to guarantee that the staff they hire meet strict ethical standards and do not risk compromising national security.

“Basically investigations for national security positions are carried out to collect information to determine if you are reliable, trustworthy, good conduct and character, and faithful to the United States,” said the SF-86 form completed by federal employees seeking security authorizations and used for fundamental investigations.

However, Trump and many of his allies entered the White House with bitter mistrust to the office on what they said was his “armament” by the prosecution against him by former special lawyer Jack Smith. His best appointments during the first month of the administration quickly moved to serve the upper ranks of the FBI and the Doj of anyone linked to Smith prosecution and those who, according to them, are not politically faithful to Trump.

Among Trump’s first presidential actions, he was the publication of a memorandum granting the highest level of security to the best managers of the White House who had not been entirely verified by the process of verification of the history.

This list of civil servants, although it is not publicly disclosed, included dozens of high -level white house staff, according to sources familiar with the issue.

In this memorandum, Trump said there was an “backward” in the security authorization process – a problem he blamed in the administration of President Joe Biden.

However, Trump’s transitional team refused for months to conclude an agreement with the Ministry of Justice under Biden to start the process of verifying history for people who have the staff of the entrant administration of Trump, who partially contributed to the endowment problems with which they are now confronted.