LOL! Snowden's background check? Outsourced! Company that did it now under investigation.

[MADem]

89. Excuse me, you just aren't talking from a place of knowledge, here.

The background check is run AGAINST the material provided on the SF-86. That material isn't just criminal record and travel background, it's foreign friends and relatives, it's what your education was, it's "Were you in the military, for how long, and what was the characterization of your discharge," and a host of other stuff. Go look at the form--everything on it is subject to exhaustive scrutiny. You have to name all your family members, a "friend" at every place you've lived, three more friends who know you well but who aren't "spouse or spouse-like"--it is a hair-tearing exercise. It also includes a medical release--and with electronic record keeping, it's easy to find which doctor a person visited...no more relying on "self-reporting" for that stuff.

However, if his first iteration of his SF-86 wasn't ever checked, and a discrepancy came up in his next investigation, they'd very possibly go back and have a look and start a house of cards tumbling.

If this guy managed to slide by--and have a sponsor at CIA, as YOU, not me--YOU--suggested, my last paragraph is entirely apropos to YOUR supposition.

Your words: I'm more concerned about his lack of standing to even be considered for a job at CIA and whether he had a sponsor that allowed corners to be cut.