Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Nobody does it better
Than private enterprise, if you listen to conservative "free market" types. And then when their failures come to light it becomes obvious that the above idea is utter codswallop.
Federal contractors who conducted a background check on Aaron Alexis when he enlisted in the military knew that he falsely reported that he had never been arrested or charged with any firearms offenses but he nevertheless was granted a security clearance, Navy officials disclosed Monday.Leave out the bad stuff and everything will look good, as long as nothing goes wrong.
The contractors who conducted the check when Alexis applied to join the Navy in 2007 discovered that he had been arrested in Seattle three years earlier. But in a report to the Navy, the investigators minimized the incident and left out the most alarming allegation — that Alexis had been charged with shooting out someone’s car tires after an argument, according to documents released by the Navy.
The disclosure is further evidence of how Alexis’s violent and erratic behavior was overlooked or dismissed over several years, a period that culminated Sept. 16, when he erupted in a rampage at the Navy Yard, killing 12 people.
Alexis’s security clearance background check was performed by USIS, a Falls Church government contractor, on behalf of the federal Office of Personnel Management. Last week, OPM said in a statement that the check was performed properly, “in compliance with all investigative standards.”
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