[VerySadAmerican]

I’ve never understood how someone who can’t pass the minimum clearance can get appointed to some position and is automatically allowed to see everything.

Every presidential appointee should have to pass a top secret clearance investigation before even being considered by the senate.

[Dante3]

I agree.

[frog in a pot]

Every presidential appointee should have to pass a top secret clearance investigation before even being considered by the senate.

Absolutely; a threshold requirement.

Would go further and say that every candidate for the office of our nation's commander-in-chief should have to do likewise.