[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.

[jpl]

When I got my clearance, the feds actually went back to the street I lived on during elementary school and talked to some of the people there. And I imagine that the people working in the biolabs at USAMRIID probably go through an even more extensive and rigorous investigation than what I did.

It's certainly possible for good guys to go bad, but it's usually due to an obvious motivation like pure greed, which was the case for Hanssen. What would this guy's motive be?

And Ivins wasn't some weird loner, he had a long-time wife and children. I still say that something stinks here.