Greetings. So you want a top job with the upcoming Obama administration? You'd better be ready to bare your soul! A background check questionnaire for upper-level applicants to the Obama team has surfaced. It's a monster set of interrogatories, probably raising the level of arguably very intrusive questions -- relating both to the applicant and their family -- to a new level for such a document.

I do understand why the Obama team may feel it prudent to require the answering of such a "comprehensive" set of queries. But I also wonder how many qualified and talented people may be unnecessarily excluded based on their unwillingness (or inability -- some of the Internet-related questions are doozies) to plow through that Godzilla of a questionnaire or expose so much of their own (and their loved ones') personal lives.

You be the judge.

--Lauren--