[jpl]

A guy who shows "sociopathic and homicidal tendencies since graduate school" is allowed to work in one of our nation's most important and highly classified scientific facilites for eighteen years, and receives the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service, one of the highest awards a civilian government employee can get?

I don't know if you've ever been through a federal security clearance investigation process, but I have, twice in fact.

Something is seriously wrong with this picture.

[Strategerist]

I don't know if you've ever been through a federal security clearance investigation process, but I have, twice in fact.

I have.

I have met some seriously screwed up people who had a Secret, at least.

Remember a complete whackjob like Robert Hanssen was doing counterintel on the Soviets for the FBI. It would be awfullly hard to surprise me.

[Strategerist]

And actually I have a friend whose military academy graduate ex-husband worked for the one of the most secretive agencies in the country, had a TS-SCI, and after they divorced, he was courtmartialed and imprisoned for meeting 14 year old girls on the internet and traveling to have sex with them. He’d kept his TS-SCI previous to that while being investigated for some sort of scam involving making returns to Best Buy and relabling.

Never met him personally but from everything that’s been described to me about him he’s a sociopath.

Like I said, I’m not surprised by much anymore.