Posted on 10/03/2008 6:12:41 PM PDT by Bulldawg Fan
Barack Obama cannot be Trusted with Classified Information
How can the President of the United States be denied a basic security clearance? How can the Commander and Chief of the most powerful military be denied access to classified information? Barack Obama would be denied the necessary security clearance for President if he was held to the same standard as everyone else. If you can’t pass a Secret level background investigation, which is required for many soldiers, you should not be eligible for the Presidency.
What is a Security Clearance?
Having served in the U.S. military, law enforcement, and as a civilian government contractor, I’ve had my fair share of background investigations. The United States government employs a multitier security clearance paradigm.
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Obama shouldn’t be in charge of a janitorial service that employs 2.
All I can say is Americans voted a draft dodger to be Commander in Chief of the military in 1992/6. I NEVER connected to that vote either. Obama is even worse. Rush is even now admitting that IGNORANCE is going to be our downfall.
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The time is now that the McCain campaign add this narative to their campaign, ads everywhere.I’ve long asked myself the same question. How could Odumbo even get a top security clearance the commander and chief requires? He would never get it.
Heck. I’m a cabinet maker by trade and even had to submit to an FBI background check just to put cabinets in the local FBI branches new building for cryin’ out loud.
Look at the stuff Clinton regretaby gave to China. Myself I shudder to think about Odumbo with even the responsiblities as just a senator.
The form you fill out for a SECRET or a TOP SECRET clearance is called an SF-86.
Some agencies have you do it on paper, others have you do it electronically.
You can Google SF-86 to see one in PDF format; if you want to try filling out the electronic one, Google the term “EPSQ”.
You download an application that looks as if it was written in Delphi or PARADOX. And then the fun starts.
You have the option to print the e-version out after you satisfactorily fill it out, and it self-audits for missing information, gaps in employment, and so forth.
Mine when printed out, was about twenty pages long; after doing one, I’ve always kept a copy because that way I have anything and everything that could possibly be asked on a job application in one place. (It took me about a week of research to find all the information they wanted.)
And just in case you’re interested, yes, I got my clearance.
Does anyone have the results of the Fox News VP debate poll? I understand there were 11 million responders?
I don't know to what extent things have changed, but my father got top secret clearance in the '60's/'70's despite the fact that his parents and siblings lived in East Germany and I had no trouble getting a secret clearance in the '80's despite having grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins in East Germany, and also admitting to having smoked pot. My fathers company was manufacturing critical components for electronic countermeasure systems for our fighters and bombers. The operational frequencies and the designs were classified. (if you knew the frequencies they operated at they could conceivably have been made ineffective, negating a HUGE advantage that American aircraft had).
Years ago, as an Army wife I had to complete forms for a security clearance on at least two occasions - once when we were assigned overseas duty and again when my hero was selected for Command and General Staff school.
The President of the United States, in addition, to having access to standard classified information, i.e. Secret and Top-Secret, would also, I suspect, have virtually unlimited access to what are known as Special Access Programs (SAPS). These are highly compartmented programs that are run by various agencies of the government.
The requirements for being cleared for information in a SAP is far more stringent than being cleared for “straight vanilla” Secret and Top Secret informaton.
Individuals are routinely denied access to SAPs whose Background Investigation have revealed various kinds of questionable activity such as prior use of drugs, current or prior association with anyone individual or group deemed to be disloyal to the United States, serious financial or credit problems, or any previous activity that would subject the individual to possible blackmail or coercion.
Has he been denied? Or is this article making a suggestion he couldn’t be based on his many relationships and ties to certain people or family members.
Has he been denied? Or is this article making a suggestion he couldn’t be based on his many relationships and ties to certain people or family members.
I think it's STUPIDITY.
I’m not casting aspersions on the original poster, but I understand that members of Congress automatically are granted TOP SECRET.
This was a real bitch when Ron Dellums was in Congress:
From Wikipedia:
Partisan affiliations
Though he ran as a Democrat, and Caucused as a Democrat in Congress, Dellums describes himself as a Socialist. In the 1970s, Dellums was a member of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), an offshoot of the Socialist Party of America. He later became vice-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA),[9] which was formed by a merger between the DSOC and the New American Movement, and which works within and outside the Democratic Party. As of 2006, Dellums is no longer a vice-chair of the DSA.
While running for mayor of Oakland, Dellums was registered as a member of the Democratic party.[46][12] All city offices in Oakland
U.S. House Committee positions
Dellums served as chairman of the House Committee on the District of Columbia and the House Armed Services Committee.
Dellums also served on the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Post Office and Civil Service Committee, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Select Committee to Investigate the Intelligence Community.[24]
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