[IrishPennant]

Zer0 has reportedly been getting his national security briefings at the FBI office in the Chicago federal building,

And that still pisses me off - man can't get a clearance but he gets briefed on national security issues.

[Churchillspirit]

....man can't get a clearance but he gets briefed on national security issues.

It's the dems. way...remember half of Clinton's team NEVER got their FBI security clearance (source - Gary Aldrich).

[angkor]

Technically the POTUS is the ultimate source of all classification authorities within the federal government. There is no higher authority to “clear” the President.

GWB could and probably did give Zer0 Super A-#1 Megagalactic clearance to know everything and anything in the classification domain.

Unfortunately it’s the proper thing to do.