I'm not big on blindly trusting the government -- I am a Reaganesque conservative, after all ("Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem" and the like). Still, in that situation, I have considerably more trust in someone who has passed a fairly thorough background check over someone that we have been given reason to suspect has ties to al Qaeda (and, moreover, isn't listening in on every conversation, but merely those that have already passed through a couple layers of computer screening).