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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Barack Obama would never qualify for a security clearance

I’m sure that Congressmen do not have security clearances. Some who are part of certain committees must have them. Nor is it found anywhere that a President has to pass some kind of security clearance check. However, they certainly should change this rule. I suppose the assumption is if there is anything that significant in your background it would come out during the vetting process. However, now that we see how far Barack Obama has gotten it is clear that the American press no longer does its job or he would have never made it to the Democratic Primaries. As a retired Special Ops guy I can absolutely guarantee you that Barack Obama would not qualify for a Secret, let alone Top Secret or TS Cosmic security clearance.

I found an article from Nov 2001 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_42_17/ai_80851957 “Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) has responded with a proposal that would require all members of the House of Representatives to go through security-clearance procedures such as those applied to members of the House Intelligence Committee.”

It absolutely amazes me as a retired Special Ops guy. Hell, I was grilled by the FBI for just taking a vacation with my wife, step-daughter and grandson to Curacao. Not that a vacation to Curacao is odd since it is part of the Netherland Antilles (next to Aruba). It was that I had recently been there on a mission. Imagine if I had associated with someone like Rev. Wright, distributed money for and worked with Bill Ayers ( a self confessed terrorist), or received sweet heart deals from a convicted Felon like Tony Rezko. Hell, if you simply become a Christian after not being one for years they put you on a “watch list” to see if you exhibit any peculiar behaviors (and for good reason). Imagine if in coming to new found faith in Christ you decided you could no longer lie to conceal the secrets you knew. There are actually some people who just don’t get the whole thing. If a pastor did some weird thing like the laying on of hands it is one thing. If the pastor screams GD America and the government gave blacks AIDS to destroy them and you sat in that church for 20 years you would not go without very deep scrutiny. If you tired to dismiss your associations with a known terrorist and they found out you were as close as Barack and Ayers were you would never get clearance. If you associated with a known Felon and received favors from that Felon you would never get a security clearance. That’s the bottom line folks.