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B0B77021 80M
382 posts
1/9/2023 7:51 pm
Does the President Have a Security Clearance?


The president of the United States is not subject to a security screening and does not hold a security clearance.

Election to the nation’s highest office is the ultimate conferral of trust upon an American citizen by the body politic. Moreover, classification policy largely stems from executive orders, which originate from the president’s pen. He or she makes the rules for classification and the treatment of classified material. As commander-in-chief, all military secrets and secret-keepers serve at the whim of the president. If a president so chooses, he or she can more or less learn everything there is to know about anything there is to know.

Presidents, by virtue of their position, are practically incapable of violating clearance law. If a president wants to declassify something, he or she can more or less declassify it by fiat. This is not to say that presidents have carte blanche to spill whichever secret happens to come to mind during some press conference. The lives of our undercover intelligence officers abroad often hang in the balance, and a well-kept secret is the difference between an officer coming home and going to a gulag. Likewise, spy operations can take years, if not decades, to put into action. To reveal such operations on a whim would cripple the intelligence community and shoot the president in the foot; few people more than the president rely on the intelligence that results from such programs.

No elected officials in Congress or the White House have security clearances. Technically they have a ‘right to access’ any information they feel necessary by their elected position, although they take various oaths of secrecy and agree to a need-to-know limitation on their behavior….but it is just an agreement…..not a law.

The limitations are not on THEIR access to classified information. The complex restrictions come into play regarding what they do with that information and who they can share it with. In particular, Congressional aides do have to get security clearances, and a member of Congress has to make sure that they do not share their information in a way that violates the security status of the aide.

B0B77021 80M
474 posts
1/9/2023 7:53 pm


B0B77021 80M
474 posts
1/9/2023 8:20 pm

No elected officials in Congress or the White House have security clearances.

That includes the vice-president.


Darter50516 66M
3857 posts
1/9/2023 9:42 pm

    Quoting B0B77021:
    No elected officials in Congress or the White House have security clearances.

    That includes the vice-president.
The "ULTRA" decoder was kept from FDR with the Japs poised to bomb Pearl Harbor then Midway.... Our "CIA" can't be trusted. ALSO report that Crazyhorse SOB for abuse calling you names in his blogs... Offensive and disgusting I no longer care to see his garbage in here


B0B77021 replies on 1/10/2023 6:09 am:
He's blocked me from seeing his posts ;only the 'headline' is visible.

His cowardice is blatant.