U.S. drops contractor that did background checks for Snowden and Navy Yard shooter

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U.S. drops contractor that did background checks for Snowden and Navy Yard shooter
By Reuters
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 18:28 EDT
By Elvina Nawaguna

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government is dropping its largest security clearance contractor, U.S. Investigations Services LLC, which carried out background checks on Edward Snowden (pictured above) and the man who shot 12 people to death at the Washington Navy Yard.

The company, which has handled the bulk of background screenings for government hires for 18 years, said Wednesday that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management had notified it that it would not renew its contract when it expires on Sept. 30.

The Falls Church, Virginia-based company has come under increased scrutiny in recent years. The company is facing fraud charges from the U.S. Justice Department for “dumping” 665,000 background check cases without conducting proper reviews.

It conducted the background checks for former National Security Agency contractor Snowden and Aaron Alexis, who had a Navy security clearance and worked at the Navy Yard. Alexis killed 12 people and wounded four before he was killed in a shootout with police.

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1. Report says security background check company received $16 million in awards

In April 2011, OPM sent a letter to Robert Calamia, vice president of field operations at USIS, asking him to explain how four investigators could have completed more than 13,000 reports — an average of 3,278 cases per employee — in the span of one week.

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