Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in China and Russia

Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by skissane on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:36AM (#21439626)

Constitutionally speaking, the President does not require a security clearance; the President ex officio has unlimited access to classified information. If there are concerns the President may be vulnerable to foreign influence, the constitutional processes to address those concerns are election and impeachment not security clearances.

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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by sjy on Monday November 04, 2019 @05:36AM (#21440378)

Is it a constitutional principle that no secrets may be kept from the President? Or is it just that the “security clearance” system is currently based on executive orders that the President issues, rather than Congress exercising its power to “make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval forces"?

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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by skissane on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:20AM (#21440925)

According to the Congressional Research Service, "By virtue of his constitutional role as commander-and-in-chief and head of the executive branch, the President has access to all national intelligence collected, analyzed and produced by the Intelligence Community"

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20110113190609/http://feinstein....

I think if Congress tried to pass a law limiting the President's access to classified information, the Supreme Court would likely find it to be unconstitutional.

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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by seanmcdirmid on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:30AM (#21441410)

True. Trump wouldn’t have qualified for high security access anyways just given his public relationship history, not even considering what an FBI clearances check would dig up.

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