[wil421]

IIRC correctly you can lose your clearance for adultery. The guy was married.

[notch656a]

John McAfee (a known liar, so take it with a grain of salt) claimed in one of his interviews he gained and kept a clearance despite adultery and drug use by being brutally honest publicly about it all, so he was utterly unable to be blackmailed.

[Kalium]

Yeah, that's plausible. They don't care about drugs and adultery. They care that it's leverage. If the world already knows, it's not leverage.

[zepppotemkin]

yeah, lying and trust are much more serious