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Congressional Leadership as Citizens of Foreign Lands?
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Congressional representative Michele Bachman was recently granted a Switzerland citizenship. She calls the matter a non-story … but is it? Is it not disturbing that political leaders of the United States could theoretically have legal duties or binding interests to foreign lands? It is especially disturbing considering that upon becoming a congressional representative that a full clearance is granted (to anything and all compartments). When a large matter of national security falls into the “NOFORN” category, what kind of precedent is she setting for maintaining classified information? (Not that congress isn’t the source of nearly all leaks …)
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I don’t think Michelle is much of a threat. Her family all went for dual citizenship because they could, and it makes sense. I would feel safer travelling on a Swiss passport than a USA one.
As to the question of whether she should have done that as a member of Congress, and the general question about that: again, not much of a threat because it is out in the open and if we ever get into a strained relationship with a country for which some congressmen are dual citizens, then appropriate action can be taken to protect secrets. They remain citizens of the USA and have all the obligations and responsibilities that go with that.
In my opinion the NOFORN classification is ridiculous and lazy. We should be more discriminating than that.