“IF he were elected POTUS, there are powers within the government who would continue to protect the US by maintaining a level of secrecy from BO, despite what he ‘demanded.’ This would give us protection from an elected tyrannical, traitorous president...”
WTF? If he’s elected and obeys his oath, he’s not a tyrant (and if he’s not obeying his oath, he should be impeached). The president is Commander in Chief, he doesn’t need security clearance because he has the power to classify or declassify anything he wishes. Its the person who’d withholds government secrets from the C-C who’d be the traitorous one.
he Constitution can survive 4 years of a bad president, it can’t survive unelected government employees withholding government secrets and decisions from a president because they disagree with the will of the America electorate.
Think whatever you want. I know what I’m proposing is true. If you knew anything about how defense programs work, you would know that even within the darkest programs, people cleared to work on the programs aren’t even granted access to know other aspects of the program that they are not directly involved with. This prevents them from being able to release secret information should their loyalties become compromised. Should the CIC be captured or lured into the company of traitors or those who would wish to harm the US (say, from Iran, Cuba or Venezuela) and give up secrets in a conversation with them simply because he’s a coward (like Obama would be), this would be a great jeopardy to the safety and security of the CONSTITUTION which these people are duty bound to uphold...not the rights of the POTUS to have all information he/she wants because he thinks he’s the Messiah. It’s a fail-safe to protect the programs that protect the security of the US. You don’t have to believe it, I don’t really care, but your assumption that just because someone sits in the Oval Office he knows everything is misguided and naive.