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To: Non-Sequitur
None of that has any bearing on his Constitutional qualifications to be president.

However, if he had been found to have lied to obtain a passport, in order to get government funds for his education, it might prevent him from obtaining a proper passport (which he had to do just before he became President), and might prevent him from having a proper security clearance which he must have authorized to hold the office of President.

It would 'complicate' matters for NSA and the FBI if it were known by the public that they 'bypassed' some laws to authorize Obama's security credentials.

58 posted on 02/08/2010 2:59:44 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: UCANSEE2
“.... might prevent him from having a proper security clearance which he must have authorized to hold the office of President. ...”

Please understand there is NO Constitutional requirement for the President to meet the qualifications for a security clearance ! Again if you are foolish enough to elect her Angela Davis could be President! (I think we did that only its a guy and its named Obama!)
The act of voting the moron into office gives them the clearance! The President is in charge of the executive branch and the executive decides what is classified and what it not ! The American people put the bank robber in charge of the bank !
There is no requirement for a politician being able to hold a clearance for holding a federal elected office. If the politician has constituents are foolish enough to put him in office, that's his clearance, granted by the constitutional act of winning an election!
Think about what politician GOP or Rat would put himself under such “clearance investigation scrutiny”, if in the course of the investigation the clearance investigator finds out something felonious the investigator is bound by law to report it!
It's the “peoples job” to vet the candidate if the people don't give a rat's pa-toot about national security then you end up with what we have now!
Anyway a pre-election clearance investigation probably could be argued against successfully as a violation of "separation of powers"! Remember the Founding Fathers always thought we would have a majority of people who would actually care about the safety of the nation!

71 posted on 02/08/2010 3:42:45 PM PST by Reily
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To: UCANSEE2
However, if he had been found to have lied to obtain a passport, in order to get government funds for his education, it might prevent him from obtaining a proper passport (which he had to do just before he became President), and might prevent him from having a proper security clearance which he must have authorized to hold the office of President.

Well if you can prove fraud then you might have grounds for impeachment. But the only authorization he needs for his security clearance is the 365 electoral votes he got in the election.

It would 'complicate' matters for NSA and the FBI if it were known by the public that they 'bypassed' some laws to authorize Obama's security credentials.

There were no laws bypassed because the NSA and FBI didn't grant him his security clearance. That came with the office.

74 posted on 02/08/2010 6:09:38 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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