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!
The FBI agent, forgot his name but he wrote a book about all this Clinton stuff, had an office in the basement of the WH, because he handled all the SSBI materiel.
Local FBI Field Offices in the applicants’ cities would do all the field work, interviews, records checks, etc, forward it to DC, then the WH agent would put it all together for the report to the Clintonistas who were doing the hiring. The Clinton people had the final, and only, say whether or not someone was hired.
If memory serves, he said that no person was ever NOT hired because of a bad SSBI.
He even wrote about young WH employees being told to go to their cars during the workday if they needed to toke up, as the smell of them hitting their reefers at their desks was permeating the WH.
His best story was of an old WH employee who was in charge of things like hot water boilers. He was one of those great old guys who knew everyone and could fix anything.
One day he walked into the SA’s office and handed the SA the required notice about cancelling his security clearance, as he was quitting after 40 years.
The agent asked why. The old technician told him of walking past an office and seeing two Clinton appointees screwing on a desk, open door and all.
The agent hated to see him go, so he tried to calm him, reminding him of the Kennedy days, etc.
The old man replied.... “But this was two guys..” and walked out.
Just remembered. The SA was Gary Aldrich. His book “Unlimited Access”