{"id":68971,"date":"2016-11-16T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68971"},"modified":"2016-11-16T11:42:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:42:24","slug":"the-president-and-security-clearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68971","title":{"rendered":"The President and security clearances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proving once again that they know nothing, the media has twisted it&#8217;s knickers over Trump and his supposed request for security clearances for his kids. This from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-clearances-idUSKBN13B1GB\">Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump was referring to media reports on Monday that he was seeking security clearance for three of his children and his son-in-law.<\/p>\n<p>Such clearance would allow Trump to discuss matters of national security with his daughter, Ivanka, sons Eric and Donald Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Federal law prohibits him from hiring family members to serve in his administration, but all four played key advisory roles through the campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The President-elect has denied that he made the request, but it doesn&#8217;t matter if he did or not. The president is the supreme arbiter of security clearances. He&#8217;s the head of the government&#8217;s executive branch &#8211; the branch that executes the functions of government. One of those functions is deciding who does and who doesn&#8217;t have access to certain information. <\/p>\n<p>The agencies that issue those clearances work for the President &#8211; they are his agent in the entire process, so he doesn&#8217;t have to review and sign off on every background investigation. In other words, if the president wants to grant you clearance to information, all he has to do is wave his hand and viola! You&#8217;re cleared.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also the final authority on what is considered classified information.<\/p>\n<p>But this is the media and they want to act like they&#8217;re watching out for us, hoping we&#8217;re all low information voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proving once again that they know nothing, the media has twisted it&#8217;s knickers over Trump and &hellip; <a title=\"The President and security clearances\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68971\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The President and security clearances<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}