It's a lie that the private sector works better than government.

Feds file fraud complaint against company that handles 45% of all government background checks (Click on this heading to read more)

Rss@dailykos.com (meteor Blades)
Thursday, January 23, 2014, 7:54 pm
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Remember how that private contractor botched the security background check on the Washington Navy Yard shooter, Aaron Alexis? And on Edward Snowden? Turns out that it did a lot more than screw up a couple of security screenings if government prosecutors are right: They claim in a 25-page civil complaint attached to a whistleblower lawsuit that U.S. Investigations Services LLC cheated taxpayers out of $12 million in bonuses by submitting incomplete security checks that it claimed were thorough. This included more than 660,000 clearance checks that USIS "flushed" or "dumped"-a euphemism describing the practice of passing along to the government investigations that were never finished and were improperly reviewed by the company:
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    From 2008 to 2012, about 40 percent of the company's investigations were fraudulently submitted, the Justice Department said.