Rep. Elijah Cummings, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, is expressing concerns over senior White House aide Jared Kushner’s use of the encrypted messaging service WhatsApp and his personal e-mail account for official government business.
Cummings has revealed that Kushner’s use of WhatsApp was discussed during a December 19 meeting that the Maryland Democrat attended along with Rep. Trey Gowdy and Abbe Lowell, who is Kushner’s attorney. And Cummings voiced his concerns over Kushner’s use of WhatsApp for government matters in a March 21 letter to White House Counsel Pat A. Cipollone.
Cummings also indicated that he was unsure whether or not Kushner had used WhatsApp to transmit classified government information. In his letter to Cipollone, the House Oversight Committee chairman wrote that Lowell “could not answer whether Mr. Kushner’s communications included classified information—which would be a major security breach—but instead, directed the Committee to inquire with the National Security Council and the White House.”
View the complete March 21 article by Alex Henderson on the National Memo website here.