The New York Times reports:
A seven-page questionnaire being sent by the office of President-elect Barack Obama to those seeking cabinet and other high-ranking posts may be the most extensive — some say invasive — application ever.
Actually, that’s not true.
The vetting process designed by Dick Cheney and David Addington for Bush’s VP search in 2000 included a battery of nearly 200 questions under 79 headings, according to Angler, Barton Gellman’s brilliant account of the Cheney shadow presidency. Naturally, the vetter himself was never vetted.
(The questionnaire is here.)
Naturally, Cheney’s vetting form was not designed to find a good VP candidate, it was to remove all opposition to him.