[Sola Veritas]

"Even if Kerry is elected, he may not be able to get the clearance needed for Commander in Chief. Once the Intelligence Agencies review his attendance at a meeting that called for assassinations of Senators they can't legally grant him clearance. This is why he never attended closed door Senate Intelligence Committee meetings because he wasn't allowed to review secret documents. Now that would be national security, a Commander in Chief that can't review intelligence even if our country is attacked."

Unfortunately this is not so. If you will remember, Bill Clinton would not have been eligible for security clearance either because of his Vietnam era antics. However, elected officials are automatically given clearance. Kinda sad isn't it? Besides, Kerry already has clearance as a U.S. Senator. Only employees of the government have to sweat out clearance, not elected officials.

[tobyhill]

The difference is Clinton never had a clearance and Kerry had his revoked. I think this is why he never attended closed door meetings? The American Revolutionary Congress set these safeguards up to assure that they weren't infiltrated by British Royalty sympathizers. Kerry may have a clearance but it probably isn't the top clearance and that's why he had Berger take the documents from the achieves otherwise he could have gone there himself and get them.