U.S. Investigative Services, LLC holds two big federal contracts for five years from 2011. One, for $2.45 billion, is for the company to provide security clearance investigations for the Office of Personnel Management. The other, for $288 million or so, is for support services to OMB.
This happy circumstance allows USIS to review and approve its own work clearing people for high-security jobs in the federal government.
Now the government says it is looking for get another company in to handle the support services contract. Why? Things seem to be running nicely, you might say.
Well, it turns out among the backgrounders the company did-and passed- were those for Arno Alexis, the recently deceased Washington Navy Yard mass murderer, and another was for Edward Snowdon, the former intelligence analyst turned Honored Guest of the Russian People.
This happy circumstance allows USIS to review and approve its own work clearing people for high-security jobs in the federal government.
Now the government says it is looking for get another company in to handle the support services contract. Why? Things seem to be running nicely, you might say.
Well, it turns out among the backgrounders the company did-and passed- were those for Arno Alexis, the recently deceased Washington Navy Yard mass murderer, and another was for Edward Snowdon, the former intelligence analyst turned Honored Guest of the Russian People.
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