REPORT: INVESTIGATORS FIND HUNDREDS MORE FALSIFIED U.S. SECURITY CLEARANCES

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Breitbart:

On at least 350 instances, private contractors and agents for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) conducted "faulty background investigations" that may have led to security clearances being awarded to people who should not have received them.

These revelations come after NSA leaker Edward Snowden and Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis received top-level security clearances. Special agents for OPM had 11 convictions and employees of USIS, the company that vetted Snowden and Alexis, had seven convictions. CACI International Inc. also have also had employees "convicted of making false statements in reports for security clearance background checks."

Reuters reviewed "court documents and press releases from prosecutors for 21 cases resulting in convictions that involved the making of false statements from December 2004 to March 2012."

The outlet found "the 350 falsified reports represent only a small percentage of the number of background investigations conducted each year, either by OPM's own investigators or a handful of private contractors it uses for most of the work."