Posted on 04/28/2009 7:42:44 AM PDT by jazminerose
How perplexing it is that the leader of the free world and possessor of the nuke codes is not required to have a national security clearance. An Army private who may come into contact with classified documents must be cleared. The Commander in Chief is exempt from any such scrutiny.
The president also decides who within his administration should be cleared and at what level.
In 1995, Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 12958-Classified National Security Information, as Amended. To no one’s astonishment, Clinton amended the previous order to facilitate the declassification of information. With emblematic liberal disregard for threats to the nation’s security, Clinton’s order required that classifiers would have to “justify” the classification of any information. Employees would be “encouraged” to challenge “improper” classification.
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An Army private doesn't have to win a national election either. Sorry, but the people have spoken. I don't agree, and they don't care.
Amazing how most foreigners get it but Americans don’t.
It’s more accurate to say that he cannot be refused one - so no background check is done. The political outcome trumps the procedural outcome by design and definition.
WalMart applicants are probably scrutinized more than this poser was.
It's not "perplexing" in the least. The President is the Commander in Chief - who is above him that would make a decision on a security clearance? And how could the country function if the President wasn't allowed to see classified material? The whole notion is silly.
Unfortunate, but true.
No, what is silly is that in a nuclear world we do not have a vetting system in place that would require a candidate to at least prove he meets the bare minimum requirements for the office and can pass a basic security clearance.
That is what is silly.
If you actually read and understood the article, it’s not saying anybody should outrank the CIC, it’s saying there needs to be a vetting upgrade.
My merriment with a rueful chuckle is of the main stream Canadian media. This especially CBC television. They as tight as the proverbial drum on this issue! If Canadians were to get any inkling of this matter, if not having a computer, they can still observe the tabloids at the local grocery store.
The only fly in the ointment as far as I can see, seems to be the swearing in of any President. Sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Apart from that, what is possibly being witnessed is rule by fiat. Fiat roughly being that a government or authority stands on what they do and want to do. That then is the law (according to them).
Puzzling times.
Maybe you want to live in a country where the secret police decide who is worthy of running for office, but I don’t.
I thought that Monica L. had a higher security clearance than Hillary!
I wonder if Obummer has a sufficient clearance to be briefed on UFO’s. If I were prez I’d want to know the truth about Roswell.
Where did I say that?
Someone is going to control your proposed “vetting” process.
I’d rather have free elections. If the people elect a charlatan, let the people suffer.
This is stupid.
Obama was vetted by voters, by the electoral college, and a dually elected Congress who certified the election. Being elected gives him (and those who came before and will come after) the right to not need further vetting or security clearances of the type the author envisions.
The alternative would be to have a small body of elected or appointed individuals in some government agency (CIA, FBI, etc) to second-guess and decide for us.
The author may be American, but the sentiment is clearly Canadian. Why is it that so much that comes out of Canada seems to reflect a dire need to be told what to do? Are they entirely incapable of independent thought up there?
I’d rather the parties vetted their candidates & let the public know about it.
But then the Dems wouldn’t have anyone to run.
Just imagine, silly trivial tabloid gossip from the CBC icon. Tax payers in Canada paying for it. We can presume the birth issue too trivial for CBC. Now supposing Stanley Ann Dunham nipped over to Vancouver BC for her son's delivery. As they say in the Ontario Govt commercials for lottery ticket purchases winning millions.
Wouldn't it be nice?
For whom I would not say though- LOL.
No. The whole notion is not silly. Security clearance SHOULD come BEFORE anyone even becomes a candidate for the highest office in the land so that someone subversive cannot get into that position in the first place. It is absolute folly that the person who gets the votes wasn’t vetted OR cleared BEFORE THE FACT.
The founders could not have in their wildest dreams thought of such corruption and madness as we see today, nor could they think of everything. I suppose they thought if it got to this place, the republic would be over anyway and maybe they were right.
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