Former FBI man Aldrich Ames' book 'Unlimited Access'
correctly mentioned
that some of Clinton's young staffers had been
working in the White House
without having completed their routine and mandatory
background security checks.
That was likely because of recent drug use, and
their need to get that out of their
system to pass the checks. In fact, all eventually
did pass those checks successfully,
and the WH had routine random drug checking imposed
on those staffers.
Unknown to most, Henry Kissinger did not and could
not pass his background
security checks. He was given a temporary waiver
so that he could begin his work
as Nixon's National Security Advisor, and then
the temporary waiver turned into
a permanent waiver.
The Clinton junior staffers were unlikely to see
truly top secret information,
but even what limited access they might have
to sensitive or classified information
meant that they needed to have those background
checks done, and they did.
By contrast, any president's National Security
Advisor would see THE most
sensitive and top secret information, on a daily
basis, since that is the essence
of his job. Yet Kissinger was allowed a pass
on that uniform and routine check.