Posted by
The Old Sailor on Saturday, September 13, 2008 9:36:47 PM
THE TOP SECRET… SECRET KEPT FROM ALL US CITIZENS
As a New York City kid, I got a job in a bookbindery owned by two Ukrainian/American WW2 veterans. At age 14, I got my social Security Card and NYC working papers, and was happily employed after High School hours, at 75 cents per hour. I gave some of my wages to my mother each week. I went to a Technical HS trade school and at graduation found myself hired as a mechanical draftsman with a Brooklyn defense manufacturer. This required a DOD “Secret Clearance,’ however after two weeks on the job the astonished department supervisor discovered I was not yet eighteen. This required yet another trip downtown to get working papers for this job.
Thus, I ended adolescence and began adult employment with a Department of Defense Secret Clearance. Another secret clearance job with an Aircraft manufacturer, then on to enlistment in the US Navy during the Korean War. As an Electronic Technician, I continued Secret DOD Clearance servicing gear on a US Destroyer. After military ‘clearance’ I once again was investigated by the DOD to be employed by a major computer manufacturer as a field engineer, servicing large scale computer systems on military installations as well as commercial sites. This required Top Secret clearance; so to make a long story or resume short, I will confess to being employed my entire adult life with secret to Top Secret Clearance until my retirement. Indeed, I had to be officially debriefed as part of my departure.
Many American citizens have that same DOD clearance life history. Why, a man running for President of the United States, to become the Commander in Chief of our armed forces, veteran naval aviator John McCain, has that same distinction.
To become the President, one does not have to have a lifetime of secret clearance; however, it would be a mistake, should the next president not have the same level of security clearance as any FBI or CIA operator must have.
Indeed, the security level of Secret-servicemen that protect the Presidents life should be equal to a president who has the highest level of defensive strategy beneath his nuclear trigger finger.
The great Community Organizer’s leap to multi-millionaire, Barack Hussein Obama, would not pass the investigative scrutiny of the same security clearance that I or John McCain passed to get Top Secret Clearance. This is the Top Secret, surreptitious abomination and traitorous act now perpetrated against every citizen of the United States of America. I therefore demand the same scrutiny and investigative conditions demanded of citizens for Top Secret Clearance, to address the credibility of any nominee running for Commander in Chief and President of these United States.