"We can trust them because they've been vetted"
Jan 27, 2014, 3:17 pm
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"We can trust them because they've been vetted"
...or not.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...d-checks.shtml
I wonder how many of those are TSA employees.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...d-checks.shtml
When we last checked in on USIS, the contracting firm which large parts of the federal government and the intelligence community used to conduct background checks on employees (including Ed Snowden), we noted that it had been caught falsifying reports and claiming to have interviewed dead people. At the time, we noted at least one USIS employee had been accused of submitting 1,600 falsified credit reports. But, apparently, the story goes much, much deeper. The DOJ is now accusing USIS of faking background checks on 665,000 federal employees.
Jan 27, 2014, 3:39 pm
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Wow.
Even if we discount the numbers by 90%, that's still pretty shocking.
I would guess that most TSO background checks are held to a much lower standard than those folks directly working in intel (Snowden) are required to undergo, perhaps because the government doesn't really believe a serious threat to aviation security will be caught at the checkpoint anyway.
Even if we discount the numbers by 90%, that's still pretty shocking.
I would guess that most TSO background checks are held to a much lower standard than those folks directly working in intel (Snowden) are required to undergo, perhaps because the government doesn't really believe a serious threat to aviation security will be caught at the checkpoint anyway.
Jan 27, 2014, 3:43 pm
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