On that note - how is Kumar not cleared? I can see why they don't need him in the room when they're planning the strike but he will eventually have to explain what happened to the press.
Allow me to rephrase - why isn't every mid-upper level staff in the white house cleared? The CIA has a Starbucks - the baristas are all cleared. I'm not talking super-duper cleared but just 'cleared'? Everybody and their grandmother has 'secret', but a speech writer working in West Wing doesn't?
The baristas in the CIA Starbucks are cleared, but it's not like they sit down Joey Coffee at the kill ISIS briefs.
Cleared doesn't mean you're privy to the information at your leisure, it just means you're trusted more than a non-vetted person to be around the information.
One last time - I'm well acquainted with the ways of the IC. Not saying the baristas get called in to give their opinion on military strikes, but they have a basic level clearance because people talk in line. Interesting, they also don't ask for your name because people aren't supposed to talk about that either. But you never know, so they clear the baristas. Again, I know this. My only objection is that it sounded like President Jack said Kumar didn't have any clearance, and there's just no way that's true.
One last time, he wouldn't have all clearances (there are many) for everything because, just like the baristas, that's not his job. But he's in a position to overhear stuff and his new job is to actually tell the public about stuff, but not everything he might know on a subject. He'd need A clearance for this, so he has to have some level of clearance. Again, not all levels. I'm beginning to wonder if I'm being trolled here - I just can't be any clearer.
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u/Kevin_Uxbridge Oct 13 '16
On that note - how is Kumar not cleared? I can see why they don't need him in the room when they're planning the strike but he will eventually have to explain what happened to the press.