“With the High security clearance for POTUS, some say Obama failed to pass, this could be a precedent if argued correctly.”
If an elected official’s position requires they have access to classified material, they are already cleared because of their election to office. They DO NOT have to go through any clearance process like an ordinary citizen would.
I don’t agree with this, but that is just the way it is. I guess the thinking is that “the people” by electing someone grants them public trust and clearance.
Now the “unelected” members of their staff may be in for a different standard.
I found this on a website.
Members of Congress are not subject to Title 50, Chapter 15, Subchapter VI of the United States Code, which lays out the rules for security clearance. To quote from that subchapter, "Except as otherwise specifically provided, the provisions of this subchapter shall not apply to the President and Vice President, Members of the Congress, Justices of the Supreme Court, and Federal judges appointed by the President."
When I went into the US Code website it read something totally different. So Obama could virtually be a terrorist with a lot money behind him who started weaving his life story beginning with his books, then Obama used thug type tactics to win the Illinois senate, then used money and media manipulation to get to POTUS. Because he was elected he now has clearance to all intelligence and the ability to start a nuclear war? Not to mention set us firmly on the path to the NEW WORLD ORDER.
Someone tell me this is wrong.