[cpforlife.org]

I tend to agree with you Uncle Ike. They certainly undergo major vetting and scrutiny by their political foes for political reasons and I'm confidant the digging is deep.

However...the Security and Law Enforcement agencies— occasionally inept as they are—may have resources and access to info on another level that political operatives simply don't.

I think maybe they should get both?

[Uncle Ike]

Emphasizing a point that I tried to make — I’m uncomfortable, in the extreme, with the notion that some bureaucrat - him/herself unelected, and of unknown personality, politics, or agenda - may exercise a veto over my possible choices...

Wish I could remember my long-ago Latin classes, so that I could sound ever-so-erudite by quoting the original, but all I remember is the translation: “Who watches the watchers?”