If anyone can find out anything more on this, please let me know. It looks like our supreme leader’s handlers just laid the smack down on a couple of cops for running a background check on him. Seriously, has it always been against the rules to subject the president to the same scrutiny as anyone else?
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First of all it is an invasion of privacy but it is also a misuse of the departments resources and is against the police department's own policies. Unless they pulled the PoTUS over in a traffic incident or he was a suspect in a crime they can't use the police department's resources without probable cause. The police can't do a background check on me just because they know my name. I have to do something or they have to have a reason. What possible reason could they have to use the states resources to check on the President?
I am not familiar with the police procedure for background checks, which is why I asked if anyone else knew anything more about the incident. The fact that Obama has released so few of his personal documents makes this look a little suspicious.