# Trump children: run the Blind Trust AND get top security clearance?

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**Created:** [November 16, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-children-run-the-blind-trust-and-get-top-security-clearance/772112 "2016-11-16T00:25:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-children-run-the-blind-trust-and-get-top-security-clearance/772112/41 "2016-11-17T20:37:33Z")

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> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> So maybe they should be privy to classified material [without the benefit of security clearance](http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/03/as-first-lady-hillary-did-not-have-security-clearance-but-received-classified-information-anyway/).

People may be granted an interim clearance while awaiting a background check. It’s common practice, especially for contractors. Whatever she may have seen would have been vetted as ‘need to know’. Also “classified information” includes a wide range of clearance levels, including ‘classified’, ‘secret’, and ‘top secret’. It is all need-to-know stuff, but little of it is vital to national security.

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