Background Checks

background checks: Case after case has exposed problems for years, including recent instances when workers the government approved have been implicated in mass shootings, espionage and damaging disclosures of national secrets. In the latest violence, the Navy Yard gunman passed at least two background checks and kept his military security clearance despite serious red flags about violent incidents and psychological problems, according to 660 News. The system focuses on identifying applicants who could be blackmailed or persuaded to sell national secrets, not commit acts of violence. And it relies on incomplete databases and a network of private vetting companies that earn hundreds of millions of dollars to perform checks but whose investigators are sometimes criminally prosecuted themselves for lying about background interviews that never occurred and WASHINGTON The governments sprawling system of background checks and security clearances is so unreliable its virtually impossible to adequately investigate the nearly 5 million Americans who have them and make sure they can be trusted with access to military and sensitive civilian buildings, an Associated Press review found. The APs review based on interviews, documents and other data found the government overwhelmed with the task of investigating the lives of so many prospective employees and federal contractors and then periodically re-examining them. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.