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I was curious, and apparently while the VP does get full clearance automatically, they don't get full access automatically, due to need to know compartmentalization rules. So Vance is cleared for anything area 51 reports to the White House, but not cleared to go there unless Trump says there's a reason. I doubt that would be much of a speed bump, but technically there is a restriction.
Thanks for looking into that. I was running on bad assumptions.
Even so, that feels shady. I know when looking at the Snowden thing that I found out that the CIA threatens even members of congress with "treason" if they look too closely at their stuff and only select congressional members can provided very limited oversite at all... I guess the military is just as bad. It feels like the VP, being the second-highest person actually voted by the people into their position, should be able to take a look at whatever, but I guess all of those machines chug on without meaningful oversight at all.
The IG departments really need to be given full clearance and taken away from the executive. The parties have also almost completely broken checks and balances at this point, the orange turd is of course abusing it, but in general too much power has been given to the parties, and our checks have been badly eroded by a lazy and weak congress.
I guess there isn't a good answer. I think parties should be outlawed anyway. The VP should have his own election, independent of the President. The congress needs to have a tighter rein on war declaration and the definition of "war" needs to be broadened to include all engagements. The re-definition of "war" to whatever nonsense they use now is the source of many problems. Once somebody gets into the top tier of the government: Supreme court, Senate, President, they need full clearance for everything. There shouldn't be things hidden from those lawmakers. Also, as you say, IG departments need to have full clearance, and they need some kind of whistleblower protection from sitting presidents. I actually like that the President holds the leash on the military, mostly because you can't trust the military not to blow the world to smitherines out of convenience. All the new evidence shows that the military pretty much railroaded Truman into letting them drop the bombs on civilian cities, and they wanted to continue and wipe out every city in Russia if the president didn't finally get a hold of them and nix it.
I'm not optimistic at all that anything will or even can be done to fix the problems. Of course that goes for every government on the planet, so any other governments weighing in with their two cents are usually hypocrites.