Crede Bailey

Crede Bailey has been serving as the White House Chief Security Officer since June 2018. He works for the Office of Administration (OA) and is tasked with managing personnel security, physical security, and HSPD-12.[1]

Career

Bailey has been the White House Chief Security Officer since June 2018.[1] Carl Kline, who was the director of the Personnel Security Office, reported to Bailey until Kline left in January 2019[1][2] and Bailey took over as director.[3]

Early in the Donald Trump Presidency, concerns were raised over issuing a White House security clearance to the President's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, because of his pursuit of large loans from Qatari financiers.[4] Carl Kline did eventually issue Kushner a clearance. Bailey later testified before the United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform that he had never felt any pressure from anyone at the White House over deciding on security clearances.[1] Bailey was responsible for suspending security office employee and whistleblower Tricia Newbold after her objections to Kushner getting clearance.[4]

Personal life
See also: White House COVID-19 outbreak

Several media sources reported on October 7, 2020, that Bailey contracted COVID-19 in September, prior to the September 26 White House Rose Garden ceremony for the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, with which a number of COVID-19 infections appear to have been related. He entered the hospital in late September and was severely ill.[5][6] Bloomberg News reported on November 1, 2020, that Bailey came down with the virus "over the Labor Day weekend" and that the White House had not acknowledged his illness.[7]

On December 14, 2020, Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg News reported that Bailey seemed to be recovering, after having his lower right leg and a toe from his left foot amputated, due to his battle with COVID-19.[8]

References
  1. Enjeti, Saagar (2019-07-18). "EXCLUSIVE: Career officials rebut claims of White House interference in security clearance process". The Hill. Archived from the original on 2020-04-19. Retrieved 2020-10-08. Bailey, the chief security officer at The White House, also defended Kline’s restructuring of the security clearance process, policies which Newbold questioned in her testimony before the committee in April.
  2. Strickler, Laura; Dilanian, Ken; Alexander, Peter (25 January 2019). "Officials rejected Kushner for top secret clearance, were overruled". NBC News. Archived from the original on 12 February 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  3. Rogers, Katie (2019-04-01). "White House whistle-blower did the unexpected: She returned to work". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2020-10-13. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  4. Strickler, Laura; Alexander, Peter (2019-02-01). "'Whistleblower' in White House security clearance office is suspended". NBC News. Archived from the original on 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  5. Jacobs, Jennifer (October 7, 2020). "White House Security Official Contracted Covid-19 in September". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on October 8, 2020. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  6. Haberman, Maggie; Cooper, Helene (2020-10-08). "The head of the White House security office is critically ill with Covid-19". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2020-10-13. Retrieved 2020-10-13. The security office head, Crede Bailey, [...] was taken to the hospital in late September, the administration official said.
  7. Jennifer Jacobs (2020-11-01). "Trump's Dismissal of Covid Risk Paved Way to White House Outbreak". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 2020-11-01. Within six weeks, another lesser-known White House official would fall gravely ill. Crede Bailey, head of the security office and an overseer of credentialing for access to the complex, came down with the coronavirus over Labor Day weekend, landing him in the hospital.
  8. Jennifer Jacobs (2020-12-14). "White House Official Recovers From Severe Covid-19, Friend Says". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 2020-12-14. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
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