the private company also handled ed snowden s most recent investigation a couple years ago, and remember, that case triggered a congressional hearing in june. at that time the missouri senator revealed the company was under criminal investigation and after this new development, the senator yesterday issued a new statement that reads in part, quoting here, from edward snowden to aaron alexis, what s emerging is i a pattern of failure on the part of this country and the failure of this entire system that risks nothing less than our national security and the lives of americans. we also just got word from the pentagon, it reports the navy would have approved security clearance for aaron alexis and when he was vetted there was not one consolidated defense facility to review background check information as there is now. molly has the news live in washington. how did the military system work when alexis was trying to get his clearance? trace, the pentagon says at