The Trump Presidency (Act V - The One Where Everybody Dies)

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phiwum said:
They have temporary clearances. Certainly not a good situation late in the term, but not the sane as having no clearances.
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But the temporary clearance is based on the premise that someone the President wants in the White House is presumed to be suitable during a clearance process that, according to press accounts, takes four to six weeks. Once negative information is revealed, the person should either be booted out, or someone at the top should make an affirmative decision that the revealed criminal record, bad debts, spousal abuse, Russian deals etc. aren't terrible enough to be disqualifying. Either way, "temporary" isn't supposed to be a work-around.
 
phiwum said:
They have temporary clearances. Certainly not a good situation late in the term, but not the sane as having no clearances.
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Other than Trump said it was OK, what's the actual difference between no clearance and a temp clearance?
 
 
Trump and White House: not interesting. He will surround himself with people who pretend to praise him. All irtelevant. As long as there is a messenger to run over to Trump from Congress with stufffor him to sign and a tweet explainer, that is all he needs.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Other than Trump said it was OK, what's the actual difference between no clearance and a temp clearance?
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Theoretically, a temp clearance limits the access that the employee has to the highest levels of secrets. In practice, especially in the Trump White House, they probably don't make much of a distinction.

Big problems throughout the security clearance process:
Murderers, rapists and pedophiles are just some of the people who were reportedly given top-secret security clearances by the federal government as it faces a huge bureaucratic backlog.
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http://www.newsweek.com/security-clearance-murderers-rapists-pedophiles-661511
 
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Craig4 said:
He is now but not when he told Kelly the wife beating thing was going to be a problem.
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Did he actually tell Kelly that he had beaten his wives? Or did he just tell Kelly something like "my crazy ex-wives are trying to screw me over, but you shouldn't believe a word of it." I suspect it's the latter.
 
Bob001 said:
Did he actually tell Kelly that he had beaten his wives? Or did he just tell Kelly something like "my crazy ex-wives are trying to screw me over, but you shouldn't believe a word of it." I suspect it's the latter.
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... which would make alarm bells ring for a competent Chief of staff.
 
 
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