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Transparency Requirements for Candidates for President and Vice-President – More Is Needed in Our Modern Electoral Process – The (OPM) National Security Questionnaire Form SF-86 Should Be Mandatory
The Post & Email Newspaper ^ | 08 May 2023 | CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret)

Posted on 05/08/2023 11:10:03 AM PDT by CDR Kerchner

(May 8, 2023) — The 2024 presidential election cycle is now underway with a few candidates having already declared their candidacy. Presidential candidates now are required to file the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Financial Disclosure Form 278e with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) within 30 days of declaring their candidacy.

From my experience and from the experience of others who have contacted me with questions about various candidates, several of the candidates are not being responsive to this author and others when sent questions regarding their full life narrative, background, and family history. Their tactic seems to be to just ignore such questions from a voter and not answer other than to put the questioner’s email address immediately onto the solicitations for donations email list. They will keep ignoring certain questions unless it is asked of them by a persistent major media reporter. And for certain candidates, certain questions never seem to be asked of them by anyone in the major mainstream media.

What questions are several candidates evading answering to concerned voters contacting them and their campaigns you may ask? Well, just peruse the national security concern questions in Form SF-86 and you will see them. Particularly Sections 10, 18, and 19 to name a few. Full transparency and disclosure is owed to the voters asking the same questions, not evasion of answering or ignoring the voter by the candidate. And the major mainstream media needs to ask each presidential candidate those national security questions in the National Security Questionnaire Form SF-86. ... continue reading at: https://www.thepostemail.com/2023/05/08/transparency-requirements-for-candidates-for-president-and-vice-president-more-is-needed-in-our-modern-electoral-process-filing-the-oge-financial-disclosure-form-278e-is-mandator/

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We the people have a right to know more national security answers about the life narrative, history, and background of candidates running for President and Commander in Chief, the person who will have access to the most sensitive of information regarding our nation's national security and the person who can waive security clearances for anyone in their administration. Thus we voters should be able to get the national security concern questions answered by all the presidential candidates in a uniform and public way. Requiring all candidates for President to fill out the National Security Questionnaire SF-86 within 30 days of declaring their candidacy should be made mandatory very similar to what they have to now do with the Financial Disclosure Form OGE 278e, which is already mandatory. Candidates should no longer be allowed to evade voters questions key national security questions regarding their life history such as those in Section 10.1 and Section 18 Entry #1 in Form SF-86. The major mainstream media is not asking these questions because imo they want to help the candidates evade answering them for their own politically manipulative reasons. Contact your U.S. Senators and U.S. House Reps and suggest to them they make filing of the National Security Form SF-86 mandatory for all presidential candidates.
1 posted on 05/08/2023 11:10:03 AM PDT by CDR Kerchner
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To: CDR Kerchner

Bull excrement. The United States Constitution outlines the qualifications for holding the office of President of the United States, not some National Security questionnaire.


2 posted on 05/08/2023 11:13:02 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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At an absolute minimum, they must be made to prove they meet the Constitutional requirements as set forth by our founders and framers in the Constitution.

And yes, an SF-86 requirement is a great idea!

3 posted on 05/08/2023 11:13:11 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid

Being a Natural Born Citizen is no longer required by the lawless unconstitutional government.


4 posted on 05/08/2023 11:15:43 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: CDR Kerchner

They would have to significantly decrease the time for processing the eQIP. Right now it takes months to even get the form to the investigators AFTER initial review.


5 posted on 05/08/2023 11:21:53 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: Yo-Yo

+1

And the requirememts also specify the candidate to be ‘a natural born citizen’.
If investigations and disclosures need to be made, they should be on the candidate meeting that requirement


6 posted on 05/08/2023 11:23:06 AM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: CDR Kerchner

gosh, i don’t see anything in the U.S. Constitution that says:

“The National Security Questionnaire Form SF-86 Should Be Mandatory”


7 posted on 05/08/2023 11:25:38 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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And the requirememts also specify the candidate to be ‘a natural born citizen’. If investigations and disclosures need to be made, they should be on the candidate meeting that requirement

I wholeheartedly agree with that. Candidates must prove they're natural born Citizens, and not just with a .pdf and a county health director dying in a mysterious plane crash.

8 posted on 05/08/2023 11:26:31 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: CDR Kerchner

Oh, great … let’s require presidential candidates to complete a form so it can be reviewed by a bunch of sh!tbag bureaucrats. What could go wrong?


9 posted on 05/08/2023 11:30:50 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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"Being a Natural Born Citizen is no longer required by the lawless unconstitutional government."

No doubt about that.

And look at where it got us!

The framers were wise beyond their years...literally.

10 posted on 05/08/2023 11:31:24 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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"Being a Natural Born Citizen is no longer required by the lawless unconstitutional government."

No doubt about that.

And look at where it got us!

The framers were wise beyond their years...literally.

11 posted on 05/08/2023 11:31:24 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Toughluck_freeper

The discussion of Natural Born citizenship comes up often.

Some Freepers say that both of your parents must have been citizens at the time of your birth, for you to be a natural born citizen.

Other Freepers say that as long as you were born in America that makes you a natural born citizen regardless of your parentage.

Which Freepers are right?


12 posted on 05/08/2023 11:34:34 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: rxsid

The progressives are nitwits for all their years.


13 posted on 05/08/2023 11:35:51 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The 14th did not address NBC, so the original sense of the term remains true.


14 posted on 05/08/2023 11:37:39 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: CDR Kerchner

If you want to make it mandatory, then put together a constitutional amendment and get it passed.


15 posted on 05/08/2023 11:41:21 AM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Bull excrement. The United States Constitution outlines the qualifications for holding the office of President of the United States, not some National Security questionnaire.


What good are the ‘requirements’ when they are ignored or lied to like in Obozo’s case? It is the job of the Party leaders - remember Pelosi certified Obozo as Constitutionally qualified - and the Secretaries of State whose job it is to examine the candidates’ qualifications for office. Just like the perfunctory electoral college that didn’t do its job on January 6th, no one takes their job seriously. These are supposed to put the teeth in those Constitutional requirements but sadly it turns out to be pure sophistry. That is why Soros diligently worked to install his minions as State secretaries knowing full well that by controlling those positions he could advance his will in elections.


16 posted on 05/08/2023 11:49:20 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Yo-Yo

You obviously did not even read the first paragraph of the article because it says ... “Presidential candidates now are required to file the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Financial Disclosure Form 278e with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) within 30 days of declaring their candidacy.” That requirement is not in the U.S. Constitution. Filling out financial and national security forms are not for constitutional eligibility purposes but for TRANSPARENCY and the right to know by voters who have questions in both areas ... financial and national security entanglements of the candidates.


17 posted on 05/08/2023 1:05:27 PM PDT by CDR Kerchner (natural born Citizen, natural law, Emer de Vattel, naturels, presidential, eligibility, kamalaharris)
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To: CDR Kerchner

They fill out the disclosure form or are fined. They are not barred from seeking office if they fail to fill out Financial Disclosure forms.


18 posted on 05/08/2023 1:07:22 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: jagusafr

My suggestion is not that they be investigated for a security clearance but that the Form SF-86 be filed with the FEC and made publicly available for the voters and media to read regarding the national security concerns and questions the voters have that certain candidates are now evading answering.


19 posted on 05/08/2023 1:07:25 PM PDT by CDR Kerchner (natural born Citizen, natural law, Emer de Vattel, naturels, presidential, eligibility, kamalaharris)
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To: catnipman

You obviously did not even read the first paragraph of the article because it says ... “Presidential candidates now are required to file the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Financial Disclosure Form 278e with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) within 30 days of declaring their candidacy.” That requirement is not in the U.S. Constitution. Filling out financial and national security forms are not for constitutional eligibility purposes but for TRANSPARENCY and the right to know by voters who have questions in both areas ... financial and national security entanglements of the candidates.


20 posted on 05/08/2023 1:07:55 PM PDT by CDR Kerchner (natural born Citizen, natural law, Emer de Vattel, naturels, presidential, eligibility, kamalaharris)
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