Welcome back to Most Amazing Top 10 - my name is Danny Burke and I have a few secrets that
you guys don't know.
Did you know that a small part of my body is actually not real?
You see it every time you watch one of these videos.
Ill let you know what it as at the end of the video but for now, were talking about
secrets that the only the US president knows - there are certain things that the president
gets told about when they are elected that the rest of us will simply never know.
What kind of secrets?
Well youre about to find out with the Top 10 Secrets Only The President Knows.
Starting off at number 10 now we have The Nukes.
This one should come as no surprise.
The US President is always accompanied by a military aid who is holding whats known
as the Nuclear Football - a black briefcase that contain the plans necessary for the President
to launch a nuclear attack.
Its needed for when the President is visiting a place with no US control room such as a
foreign country.
The plans involve details of nuclear stockpiles, damage estimates and how to launch a strike
on anywhere in the world within 30 minutes.
At number 9 now we have The Personal Lives of World Leaders.
In the past, it was common knowledge that the FBI would deliver Presidents reports on
the personal lives of other politicians or prominent Americans.
They would contains really personal information - it seems that they don't do that anymore
but the CIA and NSA still regularly provide the White House with information on foreign
leaders, politicians or business people.
These contain everything from drug habits, financial problems, criminal links, family
squabbles and even their sexual preferences.
Is that all just part of a full report or a little too much information?
At number 8 now we have Conspiracy Theories.
There have been a lot of conspiracy theories about the US over the years.
There are two big examples I can think of.
Roswell - where conspiracy theorists think that the US has covered up a UFO crash in
New Mexico in 1947 … and the JFK assassination where some people believe that foreign powers
or even the US itself killed President Kennedy.
Whether or not conspiracy theories like this are true, any president will have access to
the absolute truth.
When the JFK files were declassified in 2017, President Trump knew the contents of them
ahead of the public release - and urged for their release to help put the conspiracy theories
to bed.
But thats not how conspiracy theories work is it ...
Moving on to number 7 we have Spy Satellites.
Spy Satellites wouldnt be much good if everyone knew where they were.
The President receives briefings on US Spy Satellites from the National Reconnaissance
Office - an intelligence agency thats so secretive nobody even knew it existed until 1992, 32
years after its creation.
The President is told not only where the spy satellites and aircraft are but also confidential
information on their design.
Experts estimated there could be up to 12 different types of stealth spy satellites
and aircraft that the US has never publicly acknowledged …
Coming in at number 6 we have Counter Terrorism Reports.
In an effort to stay one step ahead of terrorism, the US government must keep the information
they have to as few people as possible - one of them is the President.
The president receives regular briefings on domestic terror threats and potential suspects.
One famous example came after 9/11 when George Bush met every morning with the FBI Director
to review what they called a -threat matrix-.
Barack Obama set aside Tuesday afternoons to review unfolding investigations in what
the White House referred to as -Terror Tuesday- … pretty dark joke there.
At number 5 now we have The Secret Law.
This is the term used to described directives the President signs that the rest of the world
will never know about.
One famous example came in 2015 when Barack Obama released a hostable Policy Labelled
as Directive Number 30.
That was strange because the last Directive he had signed was labelled as number 28 … so
where was 28?
Well, that was considered a secret law.
Presidents have done this before, sign off on a directive that the public will never
know about - thats usually because they involve serious issued such as nuclear weapons, relationships
with other countries or powers the President will have in the middle of a crisis.
Next up at number 4 we have Secret Agents.
If everyone knew who and where US Secret Agents, it would kind of defeat their purpose.
The president can request to know the details of secret agents whether they be working on
American soil or foreign countries, in drug enforcement or counter terrorism.
This also included non Americans around the world who are being paid by the US for their
services or corporation.
I used to be one of them but then I thought Id be a YouTube host - change it up a bit.
Coming in at number 3 we have Directive 58.
To put it quite simply - Directive 58 is the plan for how the US Presidency will survive
the end of the world.
It was devised in the wake of the cold war when the US began to contemplate what life
would be like if the country was hit by a nuclear strike.
Directive 58 contains the plans for how the government would operate in that crisis.
For example, if Washington D.C was hit, government members would be relocated to a special facility
on top of Mount Weather in Virginia.
Also, it dictates what resources the government would need to rebuild itself after nuclear
war.
Perhaps most importantly, it contains the plans for what to do if the President themself
was killed in a nuclear attack.
Next up at number 2 we have Beyond Top Secret.
Theres secret, top secret and then beyond top secret.
These are US operations that only a handful of people on the planet will ever know about
- a new US President is brought into that group after being sworn in.
Sometimes, the world learns about these so called -Special Access Programs- a while after
they take place.
One example is when Obama was told of the join US - Israeli efforts to disable Irans
nuclear program through cyber attacks.
Sometimes these operations arent even conducted on perceived enemies of the US, the Edward
Snowden leaks revealed that US intelligence regularly listened to telephone calls of foreign
officials such as German leader Angela Merkel - this is all information the President would
have access to.
And finally at number 1 we have The Kill List.
This is a fairly new one.
The President has the ability to sign off on strikes from drones run by the CIA and
the Pentagon.
Political assassinations are not OK but Barack and Obama and George Bush used this power
to kill suspected terrorists in countries such as Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq and
Afghanistan.
An added part of this is that the President can actually watch these drone strikes live.
Apparently this was something George Bush did regularly during morning intelligence
briefings.
Would you do that if you were President?
Or is that a little bit too much to stomach before lunch?
Very interesting stuff - hopefully that was enough details for you, its difficult to get
a lot of details on things as secretive as this.
If anyone from the FBI, CIA or White House is watching this, make sure you leave a comment
of something I missed out and Ill put it in a part 2.
That would actually freak me out if that happened.
Thanks for watching as always guys, Im Danny Burke and Ill see you all in the next video.