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by Scott Neuman
January 23, 2014 9:31 AM
... In Wednesday's complaint, USIS, the largest outside investigator for government security clearances, is accused of engaging in a practice it called "dumping" or "flushing," that involved intentionally sending the government hundreds of thousands of cases that weren't properly reviewed.
The complaint quotes one USIS official in a memo to his superiors in 2010 as saying cases had been "flushed ... like a dead goldfish" ...
Justice claims that from 2008 to 2012, about 40 percent of the investigations by USIS were fraudulently submitted ...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/23/265220277/doj-alleges-fraudulent-security-checks-by-firm-that-vetted-snowden
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)where even a credit card might be used, he does not respect property which does not belong to someone else. He is a thief.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)dballance
(5,756 posts)When will we learn that private, for-profit companies care about the bottom line and not the quality of their work for the government? Oh right, never.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Idiots
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Profit motives just don't work where good faith effort is the prime requirement. Healthcare, infrastructure, prisons, the military. Security.
A big for-profit organization will always find a way to screw the taxpayers to take more money for less service.
We shouldn't be surprised when they do exactly that. But maybe we should ... stop them?