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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"DOJ accuses firm that vetted Snowden of faking 665,000 background checks"
DOJ accuses firm that vetted Snowden of faking 665,000 background checksBy Michael Isikoff at NBC News
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/23/22401812-doj-accuses-firm-that-vetted-snowden-of-faking-665000-background-checks?lite
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As Edward Snowden prepares to defend himself in a worldwide webinar Thursday, the Justice Department is accusing the private contractor that vetted him and thousands of other intelligence workers of bilking U.S. taxpayers out of tens of millions of dollars by conducting phony background checks.
USIS, the giant private contractor that conducted the background checks of both Snowden and Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis, is accused in a Justice Department lawsuit filed Wednesday night of conducting 665,000 fake background checks between 2008 and 2012.
USIS management devised and executed a scheme to deliberately circumvent contractually required quality reviews of completed background investigations in order to increase the companys revenues and profits, said the Justice Department in its complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Alabama.
The DOJ lawsuit cites internal emails to back up charges that USIS senior officials devised a wide-ranging "scheme" to defraud the federal government on background checks through a practice known as "dumping" or "flushing" in order to boost the firm's profits.
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"DOJ accuses firm that vetted Snowden of faking 665,000 background checks" (Original Post)
applegrove
Jan 2014
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applegrove
(118,682 posts)1. Privatizing things sucks!!!
glowing
(12,233 posts)2. Exactly why is the Federal Govt contracting out security clearances? Doesn't this seem like
something the govt should keep internal? This whole drown the govt in a bathtub motto is expensive and full of corruption.
think
(11,641 posts)3. Makes one wonder how many of these background checks
were for high security clearance positions like Snowden's....
rgbecker
(4,832 posts)4. 665,000
That's a lot.
Baitball Blogger
(46,735 posts)5. "Private contractor"
Need they say more?