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- #21
When the President proves that he has disregarded security protocols while holding another position then that is grounds for removal from office by itself. That was a crime.Too funny. I've spent years reading posts by Trump folks about how the President need no 'security clearance'...that The President cannot be charged with having classified documents..because, as the President, he can do no wrong. That the President defines the rules, in the moment--as to classification and dissemination.
So what changed? Sorry..rhetorical. Perhaps Biden should pardon himself...his VP self?
You literally cannot revoke the President's security clearance//because he needs none, right? So you all have said, time and time again.
Ahh..memory lane:
Official: Trump team overruled 25 security clearance denials
A career official in the White House security office says dozens of people in President Donald Trump's administration were granted security clearances despite "disqualifying issues" in their backgrounds including concerns about foreign influence, drug use and criminal conduct.www.foxnews.com
A career official in the White House security office says dozens of people in President Donald Trump's administration were granted security clearances despite "disqualifying issues" in their backgrounds, such as concerns about foreign influence, drug use and criminal conduct.
Tricia Newbold, an 18-year government employee who oversees the issuance of clearances for some senior White House aides, says she compiled a list of at least 25 officials who were initially denied security clearances last year because of their backgrounds. But she says senior Trump aides overturned those decisions, moves that she said weren't made "in the best interest of national security."
Newbold's allegations were detailed in a letter and memo released Monday by Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, chairman of the House Oversight and Reform committee. Cummings panel has been investigating security clearances issued to senior officials including Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and former White House aide Rob Porter.
The documents don't identify the officials on Newbold's list but they note that two are "current senior White House officials."
Did Donald Trump have a top secret clearance?
Answer (1 of 13): The president gets a clearance by virtue of being elected president. Unlike his family that all have to submit SF–86 forms to be adjudicated by thr national security authorities. He could read anything classified he wanted to by just requesting it. he gets an incredible amount ...www.quora.com
If acquiring security clearances are so challenging in background cases, how did Donald Trump pass it?
He didn’t, and definitely wouldn’t*, but he doesn’t have or need one, as all security clearances stem from the president.
No one could possibly tell the elected head of the executive branch that his background is too shady to see Top Secret materials produced (or obtained) by the executive branch. The intelligence community produces an intelligence product and the POTUS is known as the “First Customer.” There’s no question that he gets access as needed. The upside of that is that it doesn’t allow unelected people to overrule the judgment of the voters and prevent a president from information vital to his/her job. The downside, of course, is that the voters can make a mistake and empower the wrong individual, but that’s the risk of democracy.
The president has the authority to see anything and even to declassify or give clearances to those deemed inappropriate to have them.
This is why the current president was able to declassify materials for political reasons, and to overrule the decisions of career professionals who determined his daughter and son-in-law couldn’t be trusted with classified information.
However, the fact that some of the classified documents may have found its way into foreign interest that made the sonofabitch rich is even more icing on the cake. That is treason.
Your boy fucked up big time. Just like Obama said Biden would do.
