Re: Does the president have to pass a poly to get TS-SCI access?
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TCI - Need to Know
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Date: July 24, 2015 10:02PM
The President of the United States may be given access to any government or military information that he requests if there is a proper "need to know", even if he would not otherwise be able to normally obtain a security clearance were he not the President.
The "need-to-know" determination is made by a disclosure officer, who may work in the office of origin of the information. The specified "need to know" must be germane to the prospective user's mission, or of necessity for the integrity of a specified security apparatus.
That being said, there's a lot of stuff that the President specifically avoids knowing about so that he can maintain plausible deniability.