USIS That Vetted Snowden Under Investigation; Booz Allen Hamilton Overlooked Snowden Resume Discrepancies

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http://www.ibtimes.com/usis-vetted-snowden-under-investigation-booz-allen-hamilton-overlooked-snowden-resume-discrepancies

By Amrutha Gayathri
International Business Times
June 21 2013

A private company that conducted a background check in 2011 on Edward Snowden, 
the former defense contractor who leaked sensitive information about the 
National Security Agency’s surveillance programs, has been under federal 
investigation for the past several months, a government watchdog testified at a 
Senate hearing on Thursday.

Patrick McFarland, inspector general of the U.S. Office of Personnel 
Management, or OPM, said at a Senate hearing that the security clearance check 
for Snowden, carried out by a Northern Virginia-based private firm, USIS, may 
have been faulty, Associated Press reported.

McFarland declined to reveal the reason or nature of the probe against USIS, 
which was established in 1996 as a result of the privatization of the 
investigative branch of OPM, a federal agency.

USIS undertakes contracts from OPM to conduct background checks for more than 
95 federal agencies and currently has 100 federal contracts, according to the 
company website.

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