At Monica time, I spoke with one of the FBI agents who did the SSBIs on the WH staff. There is an interesting, and very bad concept at play here.
The Bureau runs the SSBI, and reports its findings, but has no authority to give or deny, or even recommend issuance or denial of any WH clearance.
They had senior WH employees smoking pot IN THE WH, histories of serious felonies, histories of other elements that would create a bar to even a Confidential clearance in the military, but nothing was ever done, because the office of POTUS had the only approval authority in these things, and wanted all their political allies with them.
Slick and Super Dyke couldn’t have cared less.
Don’t doubt it at all. Either way, the SSBI questions changed drastically after DADT. It’s hard to think back to all the shenanigans of those years.
At least we had some opposition back then. Today, it’s not even crickets; it’s a hallelujah chorus from “our” side. Just disgusts me!