Only if they’re Republicans.
Bankon it... nothing even one-tenth as rigorous was done to vet Obama.
Good point!
Someone (Obama) is running for President, who would not be able to get a job as an entry-level computer technician at my company — because he would not pass the background check!
Elected positions are not subject to approval by the FBI. Think about how scary a world that would be.
As Savage noted last week, based on Obama’s long-term association with known domestic terrorists he would be unlikely to pass the background check to work for the FBI.
Under what controlliong legal authority?
To answer your question, no, they are not. They are also given NIE briefings once they are nominated.
It is possible to do that on age, natural-born citizenship and residency only. Any other restrictions would require a constitutional amendment.
It details in depth, his experiences in attempting to get the Clinton White House staff to comply with the law and undergo the required scrutiny for security clearance processing and approval/denial.
Most of them either completely blew him off, or flatly refused.
Neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton ever complied while he was there (they did eventually run him off), and he goes into great detail how, knowing what had at that time become public knowledge about them (Bill's unexplained foreign travel [6 months in Moscow], his flat refusal to release his medical records, persistent reports of heavy drug use while in office in Ark., Whitewater, philandering, her allegded complicity in several S&L failures, etc.), if he had been able to apply the normal standards for processing a clearance request, neither would have qualified for even a Confidential level security clearance.
However, officials elected to the Senate and Executive Office are granted clearance by virtue of their positions, as well as selected members of their staffs.
Sad, but true.
It's scandalous that our elected officials are allowed to bypass the kinds of security checks that we common folk must be subject to. Remember Senator Leahy (aka Senator Depends)? Leahy acknowledged inadvertently leaking a confidential Senate Intelligence Committee report, apologized and resigned from the committee. There are two other reports from the 1980s, which allege that he inadvertently disclosed classified intelligence information in one case and threatened to do so in another.
I thought you were going to say, "Well, he does have Obama signs in his front yard."
He listed my father as a reference.
They came to visit my father and interviewed him for over an hour.
They they did a background check on my father.
“She came to my door, showed her badge and paper work, and I invited her in.”
Sounds like a juicy novella. LOL!
Obama is protected from close scrutiny by an inherited characteristic, and because he’s a democrat.
My OPR investigation took place from August 2007 to February 2008. Had to get a full background done for my position with DHS/ICE. My investigator let me know just how much fun he had asking the neighbors about me, especially when he went across the street and told the lady who answered the door, “The gentleman who lives in that house is being investigated for a job with Department of Homeland Security, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement,” and she said to him “Immagracion?” (sp - no, I’m not sure how to spell it in Espanol)
It’s a houseful of illegals - about 12 of them in the house. They don’t even walk by the house anymore.
The standards utilized to clear hired and appointed officials within our government sadly do not apply to elected officials. I had a friend with the DIS who claimed to be part of the processing of President Clinton’s security clearance - according to him a non-elected official would not have been granted an (S) much less a (TS). All rumor of course, discussions over beer hardly count as verifiable stories - but the point was true - background checks and clearances for elected officials are simply formalities and the records of such investigations can not be made public - exempt from FOIA.
Uh, the requirements to be President are spelled out in the Constitution. A background check isn’t one of them.
I do remember however the police chief chief in Chicago at the time commenting after Harold Washington was elected Mayor that “ I can’t be seen in public with him, I’m not allowed to associate with known felons”. Too sweet.
Has McCain been vetted? He’s surely the Manchurian Candidate. //S//