Privatizing our nation's security/spying.

Background checks on Snowden and Navy Yard shooter done by same private company

Rss@dailykos.com (hunter)

Friday, September 20, 2013, 9:25 pm

 

Congratulations, you are SO fired. (USIS website)

Looks like somebody is going to have to hire one of those "fixers" to repair their company image:

The same federal contractor that vetted Edward Snowden, who leaked information about classified U.S. spying programs, also performed a background check that let the Washington Navy Yard shooter obtain a security clearance.

Now the contractor, USIS, is drawing fire from a U.S. senator asking how Snowden and Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis slipped through the cracks.

Being implicated in two of the biggest security eff-ups of the last year probably requires some "we're sorry" ads, maybe a new Twitter campaign, and possibly a change even to the company name (is Blackwater available, or did someone else call dibs on that one?) There's a caveat, however. The federal contractor was responsible for background checks in these two cases primarily because USIS is responsible for the majority of all background checks, period.