re: #22 Joanne

Company allegedly misled government about security clearance checks

Federal investigators have told lawmakers they have evidence that USIS, the contractor that screened Edward Snowden for his top-secret clearance, repeatedly misled the government about the thoroughness of its background checks, according to people familiar with the matter.

The alleged transgressions are so serious that a federal watchdog indicated he plans to recommend that the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees most background checks, end ties with USIS unless it can show it is performing responsibly, the people said.

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washingtonpost.com

If it can, the government should sue USIS. Booz Allen Hamilton surely should as well. Between the two suits, USIS should be bankrupted and then background checks can be entrusted to a more responsible entity (which may mean the federal government, but might not as well).