"Do you recommend Matt X. to be a guerrilla commando jungle warrior, or some goddamn thing?"
OR
"Do you you have any reason not to recommend him?"
OR
"Do you not recommend him?"
I had no reason not to recommend him, and he got whatever goddamn thing he was shooting for.
And then he quickly lost it, by having a few drinks and giving his CO his honest opinion.
And so it goes....
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:34 PM, andie nachgeborenen < andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Not standard.
>
> I have participated in a number of these things. My favorite story was when
> a friend and fellow lawyer applied for a job as an a DoJ Antitrust
> prosecutor, don't know why that would require a security clearance but it
> does.
>
> A youngish presumably newish FBI SA came around and asked me a number of
> desultory questions, my fave being, Do you have any reason to doubt X's
> patriotism or loyalty to the United States? (Very important than your
> antitrust guys and gals are patriotic.
>
> I said, truthful, No.
>
> "Oh thank God," said the SA. "You have no idea how much paperwork it
> involves when the answer is anything else."
>
> She didn't get the job anyway for an unrelated reason.
>
>
> --- On Thu, 11/13/08, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] "FemDomDem" and "ObamaGirlSeeksPissSlave" Aren't
> Going to Get Those Ambassadorships
> > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> > Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 10:14 PM
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:14 PM, shag carpet bomb
> > <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:
> >
> >
> > > The application also asks applicants to "please
> > list all aliases or
> > > 'handles' you have used to communicate on the
> > Internet."
> >
> >
> > Which is to say that it's a standard security clearance
> > application? Or have
> > I missed something?
> >
> > --
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