{"id":361660,"date":"2026-10-01T07:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361660\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T07:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:44:25","slug":"nyc-mayor-mamdani-finally-gets-top-level-security-clearance-nine-months-after-taking-office-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361660\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Mamdani finally gets top-level security clearance, nine months after taking office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mayor Mamdani has finally received <a data-ylk=\"slk:high-level security clearance;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/mayor-mamdani-still-waiting-on-federal-security-clearance-8-months-into-office\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">high-level security clearance<\/a> from the federal government, after nine months on the job without it, the mayor said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mamdani got the green light from the feds this week, a spokesperson for the mayor said \u2014 after Mamdani met with President Trump at Gracie Mansion last week during the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While waiting for months for a <a data-ylk=\"slk:federal clearance;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/securityclearances\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">federal clearance<\/a> is not necessarily out of the ordinary, the delay was cause for some anxiety as Trump has in some cases politicized security clearances. Last year <a data-ylk=\"slk:he revoked clearances;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/03\/rescinding-security-clearances-and-access-to-classified-information-from-specified-individuals\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">he revoked clearances<\/a> for Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, both of whom had ledcases against Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Receiving a clearance means an individual is officially allowed to access and be briefed on the U.S. government&#8217;s most sensitive classified information. For mayors, that means they can get information on things like terrorism or threats to the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The FBI typically handles security clearances, and the process involves filling out paperwork, going through an interview process and agents speaking with friends and and family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Last year, ex-Mayor Adams had his security <a data-ylk=\"slk:clearance revoked;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/02\/20\/stripped-of-security-clearance-due-to-indictment-adams-kept-in-dark-on-nyc-terror-threats-lawyer\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">clearance revoked<\/a> after he was charged with bribery and campaign finance crimes in a federal indictment. Those charges were later dropped at the behest of the Trump Justice Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani has finally received high-level security clearance from the federal government, after nine months on the job&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8409,398,36610,9,56,63,65,64,2304,79441,134324],"class_list":["post-361660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-gracie-mansion","tag-letitia-james","tag-mayor-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-president-trump","tag-security-clearance","tag-security-clearances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}