I seriously doubt that even assuming that the company did all their diligence (I'm not saying that they did not) that their success rate would be 100%.
Not too long ago, there would be a 8-10 month wait just to get an interview with someone to just kick of the individual investigation. The investigations themselves can can many, many more months after that. By allowing contracting firms and outsourcing, they've significantly lessened the wait. Unfortunately, it's coming with the cost of rampant fraud, waste and abuse (at least form what the article is asserting).
I remember people around here being hired by defense contractors, and then sitting around doing nothing for months until their security checks went through. This was ten or twelve years ago.
I'm legitimately concerned that anyone who's ever donated to Ron Paul, etc., will never find their way into a position to leak, ever again. And we know they have a lot of data to scrape in filtering out candidates with strong opinions on human rights, rule of law, etc.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 33.7 ms ] threadMakes you wonder: who was responsible for picking USIS to do the job?
Not too long ago, there would be a 8-10 month wait just to get an interview with someone to just kick of the individual investigation. The investigations themselves can can many, many more months after that. By allowing contracting firms and outsourcing, they've significantly lessened the wait. Unfortunately, it's coming with the cost of rampant fraud, waste and abuse (at least form what the article is asserting).
Good ol' distractionary (although OSX thinks I mean "discrattionary" for reasons I can't fathom) tactics.