Shapiro says Harris' vetting team asked whether he was 'an agent of the Israeli government'

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1. What does he think vetting is?

As a Jew I have no problem with aggressive vetting, which necessarily involves asking questions that would be most inappropriate in other circumstances.

Political opponents and talking heads and so on had no basis to pursue that line of inquiry and there it was certainly offensively. But in private when vetting a candidate to rule out potential scandals? They needed to know if there was even a photo or him near an Israeli agent, if his second cousin is married to an Israeli agent, whatever. Because anything like that would become an issue for the campaign.


I would expect them to ask other questions as well that would otherwise be inappropriate such as asking about drug use, gambling, sex life, dating app use, any accusation of impropriety, etc.

And I would expect them to ask such question about the candidate to friends and family as well.

Which is pretty much the process I went through to get a security clearance. It's a highly intrusive process.