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Senator: Firm that vetted Snowden under criminal investigation
- adamnemecek 13y agoI seriously doubt that even assuming that the company did all their diligence (I'm not saying that they did not) that their success rate would be 100%.
- socalnate1 13y agoTalk about trying to create a distraction from the real issue here...
- addflip 13y agoI love that this is what they are investigating.
- anaptdemise 13y agoHiring contractors to screen contractors...
- teeja 13y agoThe government outsources background checks for top-secret jobs? Why, so they can shift the blame for their 10%-rated efforts to private firmst? Makes you wonder: who was responsible for picking USIS to do the job?
- fname 13y agoThey had to! Not too long ago, there would be a 8-10 month wait just to get an interview with someone to just kick of the individual investigation. The investigations themselves can can many, many more months after that. By allowing contracting firms and outsourcing, they've significantly lessened the wait. Unfortunately, it's coming with the cost of rampant fraud, waste and abuse (at least form what the article is asserting).
- a3n 13y agoI remember people around here being hired by defense contractors, and then sitting around doing nothing for months until their security checks went through. This was ten or twelve years ago.
- trevelyan 13y agoWould anyone like a dollar?
- mmu 13y agoSure!
- stevedub 13y agoMaybe I haven't read every single article but is there anything we know about Mr. Snowden that would have flagged him during this process?
- tekromancr 13y agoMaybe he would have failed the "commie traitor" check /s
- lukifer 13y agoI'm legitimately concerned that anyone who's ever donated to Ron Paul, etc., will never find their way into a position to leak, ever again. And we know they have a lot of data to scrape in filtering out candidates with strong opinions on human rights, rule of law, etc.
- madaxe 13y agoA wild scape-goat appears! Good ol' distractionary (although OSX thinks I mean "discrattionary" for reasons I can't fathom) tactics.