Republican Katie Arrington's former Defense Department job is a big issue as she tries to defeat freshman GOP Rep. Nancy Mace in South Carolina's June primary. Mace wants Arrington to take a lie detector test over losing access to classified information.
Mace’s campaign has argued that Arrington’s clearance status is fair game for someone seeking to represent a congressional district with a heavy military population. But in an interview, Arrington insisted Mace was “lying” about the issue. She’s stepping up an effort to rebut the attacks, including providing a sworn affidavit to The Associated Press from an unnamed intelligence officer who worked with her and said he never worried about her handling of classified information.
In the interview, she said that during her daily briefing, an intelligence officer relayed to her information related to a possible problem with the contractor. According to Arrington, both she and the officer were surprised the name of the contractor was included in the information but accepted that a higher-up had made that determination.
In the affidavit, the briefer also noted that superiors told him Arrington “committed a security violation by sharing information with a defense contractor using unsecured means” and asked him “a series of questions” about Arrington’s political affiliations, which Arrington argues had already been widely known, given her previous congressional bid.
“I literally got blacklisted because I was a Republican, because I was associated with Trump,” she said. According to Arrington, the briefing officer asked that his affidavit be declassified so Arrington could share it while her Freedom of Information Act claim proceeds against the Department of Defense.The probe into Arrington’s clearance dragged on throughout 2021, with Arrington suing the Pentagon in October, accusing officials of failing to take “any significant substantive steps to move their investigation forward.
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