There is odd stuff at NASA, indeed.
Court: NASA Can't Investigate Employees' Medical Records, Finances, Sex Lives
Low-risk employees of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory won their lawsuit to prevent the government from investigating their financial and medical records, questioning their friends and learning about their sex lives before issuing them ID cards.
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=67613
I read a blog of a husband of a NASA employee. She was subjected to all kinds of grills to obtain clearance. A lot of people quit. It's bookmarked elsewhere. I'll have to dig it up. There was a whistleblower who came out about it too.