DOJ Alleges Fraudulent Security Checks By Firm That Vetted Snowden

[struggle4progress]

by Scott Neuman
January 23, 2014 9:31 AM

... In Wednesday's complaint, USIS, the largest outside investigator for government security clearances, is accused of engaging in a practice it called "dumping" or "flushing," that involved intentionally sending the government hundreds of thousands of cases that weren't properly reviewed.

The complaint quotes one USIS official in a memo to his superiors in 2010 as saying cases had been "flushed ... like a dead goldfish" ...

Justice claims that from 2008 to 2012, about 40 percent of the investigations by USIS were fraudulently submitted ...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/23/265220277/doj-alleges-fraudulent-security-checks-by-firm-that-vetted-snowden

[Thinkingabout]

1. It is evident the Scumball Snowden should not have been cleared for any job

where even a credit card might be used, he does not respect property which does not belong to someone else. He is a thief.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Save some scorn for USIS. nt

[Thinkingabout]

3. I have not excused USIS, it does not change the Scumball Snowden remark.

[dballance]

4. Yep, privatization worked great there didn't it?

When will we learn that private, for-profit companies care about the bottom line and not the quality of their work for the government? Oh right, never.

[snooper2]

5. That seems like the last fucking job any government would outsource

Idiots

[DirkGently]

6. Privatized National Security: Not actually that secure.

Profit motives just don't work where good faith effort is the prime requirement. Healthcare, infrastructure, prisons, the military. Security.

A big for-profit organization will always find a way to screw the taxpayers to take more money for less service.

We shouldn't be surprised when they do exactly that. But maybe we should ... stop them?