I live in an area where many folks are being screened for clearances and have been interviewed numerous times for friends and family and neighbors.
i have been surprised with how silly sime of the questions have been over the years, and can completely see how lack of time to properly interview acquaintances can lead to disastrous clearances.
When Ileana Privetera started working for the contractor USIS, the firm that vetted National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis, it sounded like the perfect job. A mother, she would have flexible hours for her family, and she would be helping the country by running background checks on people who were doing the government’s most critical jobs.
She quickly learned that she was being asked to do the impossible.