They used to check pretty thoroughly. I had had a roommate who had a friend that visited E Germany a few times and they dug into that despite my only having met the guy in passing.
My neighbor is a spook aeronautical engineer, I think related to satellites because he built a home-based system to track all U.S. airline flights. A week ago, a clean-cut investigator appeared at our front door and his ID was issued by the United States Personnel Management Dept. He was here to ask us a lot of questions about my neighbor...mostly related to his character and if he traveled for long periods out of the country. When I told my neighbor about it, I told him that I knew it was for a security check and that I told the investigator that he was not a communist, my neighbor laughed!!!
I’m not entirely sure how to use this format as I’ve just joined this forum today.
I learned of this issue with usis a couple years ago on an episode of Frances and Friends when Blake Percival was interviewed. Besides this, I have never heard mention of it on the news. Despite involving up to 650,000 fraudulent background checks including background probes on Edward Snowden and Aaron Alexis, the Navy Yard shooter. One can only imagine how much this contributed to the federal governments deepstate.
From what I understand this division of office personnel management contracted background checks to usis beginning in 1996 when Clinton and congress created this new legislation.
Despite Blake Percival winning his whistleblower case around 2012, leading to a six million dollar qui tam settlement, which also led to the exposure of billions of dollars in fraud, not one person was indicted and the corporation quietly closed and was reopened under another name. Very little is found on this when searching for information. One can only imagine what type of espionage was allowed when hundreds of thousands of background checks were “cleared”. despite never having had human eyes laid on these applications. Given what we know of Barry’s cabinet, we can only imagine how this was orchestrated to be used for “foreign” interests.