[XRdsRev]

Would have to know the details on what actually transpired. Typically in a SCIF even high level VIP’s and officials usually must obtain prearranged permission to enter, they can’t just go in unannounced. For example, there could be information in a SCIF from cooperating partner agencies that even a Department head might not have a bonafide need to know and therefor should not have access to unless the original classification authority concurs. It gets a little complicated. There might be a valid reason for the refusal or their might not be, we simply don’t know.

[cgbg]

That is my issue—thanks for raising it.

That is what must stop imho.

Cabinet officials must have total access.

Otherwise they do not know what is happening beneath them—and the bureaucracy can run amok.

[wildcard_redneck]

I call bull on that. That is pure legalism from the deep state. If any employee of an agency can enter a SCIF then so can the appointed leader of that agency.

legalism

noun

US

/ˈliː.ɡəl.ɪ.zəm/ UK

/ˈliː.ɡəl.ɪ.zəm/

the practice of following the law very closely, especially by paying more attentionto rules and details than to the intentions behind them

[Political Junkie Too]

there could be information in a SCIF from cooperating partner agencies that even a Department head might not have a bonafide need to know

The Attorney General is often called America's Top Cop.

Do you think what you wrote would apply to that role?

Secret policing so secret that even the Top Cop can't know about it?

I don't think so.

-PJ

[FreeReign]

Bondi had a need to know.