According to the following story, the NSA is very concerned about the quality of the background investigation of Snowden:
It is pretty embarrassing when someone with a top secret clearance spills the beans to the Guardian UK and then runs off to Hong Kong. I can already guarantee you that there are far fewer holes in the background of Eric Snowden than there are with Barack Hussein Obama and we elected him President.
I speak from experience, because I had a top secret clearance. It took several months to conduct my background investigation and they checked everything. I even had friends from high school telling me about how someone sat down next to them in a bar and started up a conversation. Then at one point they were casually asked if they knew me from high school. They checked my background from date of birth until the day I got my clearance.
They would never have considered giving a security clearance to someone who could not verify where they were born. I am not a birther, but Barack Obama has never produced a certified copy of his birth certificate. No representative from the State of Hawaii has ever said the following: The birth certificate presented by Barack Obama is identical to the one we have on file. They have said they have his records, that they can verify he was born in Hawaii and that he is a U.S. citizen. All that is nice, but we still don’t have a single copy certified copy of his birth certificate. You know the kind we all needed to get a driver’s license or register to vote, before Democrats decided that was no longer necessary. I believe Obama was born in Hawaii and I am really sure he wasn’t born in Kenya. But that doesn’t change the fact that he has never produced this most basic of personal documents.
This was discussed, again, this week on MSNBC:
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/06/18/republican-congressman-questions-obamas-validity/
Once again, MSNBC missed the point. This is a photocopy of a long form birth certificate that looks like it was photocopied out of a book. Does your birth certificate look like this? Do you know anyone else whose birth certificate looks like this? I mean this is not hard. You ask for a certified copy of your birth certificate and you get it in about two days. This is like driving around with a photocopy of your driver’s license. Do you think any cop would accept that, not matter how “good” it looked?
They would never have considered giving a security clearance to someone with a history of drug abuse. That includes pot smoking. Barack Obama admits to using cocaine and smoking pot enthusiastically. This would have disqualified him for a security clearance. I had one guy who went all the way through language school with me. The Air Force had invested over 18 months in training him. They found out he had smoked pot one time and they immediately booted him out of the program. To all you kids out there who think that all the baby boomers smoked pot, I guarantee you that if they did, they didn’t work for the NSA if anyone knew about it.
They would never have considered giving a security clearance to someone who had traveled overseas under less than clear circumstances. Barack Obama’s great adventure to Pakistan, after leaving Occidental College, would have drawn a lot of scrutiny. It was probably not illegal to travel to Pakistan at that time, but it would have raised some very red flags.
They would have never considered giving a security clearance to someone who had close blood relatives living overseas. Barack Obama has several close relatives, including a grandmother and a half-brother living in Kenya.
They would never have considered giving a security clearance to someone who was close friends with someone like William Ayers. Ayers was a leader in the Weatherman Underground, a terrorist organization that conducted bombings against government facilities, including the pentagon. They don’t give security clearances to people who are best friends with enemies of the state.
Both Barack Obama and Michelle Obama surrendered their law licenses. Michelle surrendered hers in 1994. Barack Obama surrendered his in 2007. There are no public records verifying the reason. Factcheck.org tried to discredit rumors that both Obamas surrendered their licenses to avoid discipline. The following article contains their report:
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/06/the-obamas-law-licenses/
Actually this report only demonstrates the lengths to which factcheck.org went to try and cover for Obama. The exact wording is as follows:
Neither of the Obamas has any public record of discipline or pending proceedings against them, according to the online public registration records of the ARDC. We also confirmed that with Grogan, who said that the Obamas were “never the subject of any public disciplinary proceedings.”
I am sure this is absolutely true and absolutely meaningless. The key word is “public.” There is no “public” record. The official policy of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) is that if the ARDC investigates a licensed lawyer, the proceedings become public record, but the ARDC won’t punish or publicize finding against a lawyer who voluntarily resigns. The only thing factcheck.org was able to prove was the lack of a public record.
Barack Obama surrendered his law license after a request was filed with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission asking that the application to the bar that Barack Obama had filed in 1991 be examined in light of information that had recently been made public. Was that a coincidence?
You will also notice that factcheck.org uses tortured logic to try and prove that Obama didn’t say what he said during a State of the Union address. What Obama actually said:
Abroad, America’s greatest source of strength has always been our ideals. The same is true at home. We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we’re all created equal; that no matter who you are or what you look like, if you abide by the law you should be protected by it; if you adhere to our common values you should be treated no different than anyone else..
He was clearly quoting the Declaration of Independence and he was clearly referring to the Constitution. Actually, I don’t care, because Obama didn’t write the speech and the blame for this mistake rests with his speech writer and his TelePrompter. I only mentioned to show that factcheck.org went to great lengths to avoid actually checking facts. They should have said: “Obama made a mistake.” I mean who really cares?
I firmly believe that at some point all of this will eventually come out and there are going to be a lot of red faces. But, I doubt that this will happen while Obama is still President. We are just now learning about JFK and he has been dead for nearly 50 years. We recently learned that JFK wrote in his diary,about the great job Adolph Hitler was doing in Germany. Nice!
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/24/jfks-secret-diary-fascism-right-thing-for-germany/
Of course the main stream media never reported this, because Camelot is still Camelot.
Snowden probably should not have been given a clearance, but he was vetted a lot more than Obama. Maybe, during our life time, we will learn the truth. Don’t hold your breath.
TDM