White House counsel Pat Cipollone sent a letter to House Oversight chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) rejecting the committee’s request for documents explaining the process for granting security clearances to White House personnel, calling their demands “unprecedented and extraordinarily intrusive,” Axios reports.
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