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    Commentary: Kushner shouldn't get to play government

    by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times Feb 04, 2019 3 minutes

    Unless you're Dudley Do-Right, or maybe special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, the Questionnaire for National Security Positions should terrify you.

    The SF-86, as it's called, is the bruising 127-page confessional required of all government employees seeking permanent security clearances. Before you can be trusted with state secrets, you need to be put through the moral wringer.

    For an applicant, the SF-86 is the mythic "woodshed" in PDF form. It's a place to face your whole shifty lifetime of corner-cutting, half-truths, pleasure-seeking and brazen misdeeds. Slept with

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