Given what the FBI has done to Trump and his associates and supporters, this would be very understandable.
I’m all for it. FBI background checks are BS anyway. They speak to people who know you and write down anything the person says about you.
Well FWIW they will drag out the process as long as they can get away with. I’d be shocked if previous administrations did not at least grant interim clearances while the FBI investigated.
An excellent book was “Unlimited Access” by Gary Aldrich, the FBI agent who was in charge of vetting White House and Cabinet members for security access.
But it was a sh*t show during the Clinton White House.
Our security system needs a major overhaul. Kash Patel in his book discussed how they had an endeavor to fix it, have common security classifications across all the intelligence agencies, and it was crushed by Biden when he was selected for office.