Presidential Candidate Security Clearance

[zwyziec]

I've tried to find, unsuccessfully, what the requirement and schedule is, for a presidential candidate to go through a FBI investigation for a security clearance.

There are rules for their security nominees, for the Vice President picks, for other staff members.

It appears to me that after their respective nomination, they should undergo a thorough investigation.

Better to know one is elected if they are cleared to be privy to the CIA, FBI, Defense, etc. secrets.

Wonder if Trump could successfully navigate an investigation. Any connections to the mob? To foreign agencies?

Just say'n.

[jeepers]

1. On my job application

Could I expect a security clearance if I was under investigation by the FBI?

[grasswire]

2. Trump is such a blabbermouth. I sure don't want him getting the secrets. nt

[JDPriestly]

3. It would be undemocratic and an offense to our Constitution to require the security

clearance of a future president.

I hope you aren't serious.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. Once he's the official GOP nominee he'll get daily CIA briefings

How long do you think he'll be able to keep it to himself? His ego is so big he'll have to tell everyone what he knows just to show he knows it and they don't.

[COLGATE4]

6. According to one expert on Tweety tonight the briefing that Drumpf and

future VP candidate will receive (the same for Hillary and her VP) is usually only ONE, lasting a few hours. It does not cover operational issues, covert material or anything overly sensitive. It's more of a 'world view trip'. After that, no more briefings until a candidate is elected. Then the person elected as future President will receive all the same briefings Obama gets.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. Whew!

I can imagine the briefing Bush got: "Europe is not a country; we don't have any treaties with Texas; ignore any briefing that contains the words 'Bin Laden,' 'determined,' 'strike' and 'United States.'"

[braddy]

5. I know that once elected there is no higher authority on anyone's security, than the president

himself, and he is the final authority on what gets classified, he is the boss of that entire arena.

As far as before the election I don't know, but trying to block out, or make null and void one of the two major party candidates for the presidency, would be one hard thing to carry off.

When the people elect the boss of the military and of the entire executive branch, there is no bureaucrat sitting in a little office somewhere who can negate that election and decide for himself if the president qualifies.

I don't know if an outgoing president would have the power to hold briefings back from a major party nominee , if he does, it sure wouldn't go well for anyone, if it was tried.

[bemildred]

8. The people are the ultimate source of authority in the US government, and the President

is their agent. There is no higher authority to grant clearance to the President, except for his election by the people. That is his clearance, and all he needs in that regard.