was there some actual failure in the system where it should have been spotted that there was this background information on him. and it was not. he by all accounts, he was never convicted of a crime although he had several run-ins with the law. it will have to be determined by investigators weather any of this might have legally kept him from getting a security clearance. this is a terrible incident. no one's excusing any of it. but let's remember, there are hundreds of thousands of contractors that have security clearances. edward snowden who leaked the nsa information, he had a security clearance. this isles becoming a very fundamental issue about how the government functioned. it can't function without contractors. that's a reality. so now the question is, if you're going to have so many contractors, are the rules tight enough for the people who get these security clearances? does the government know enough about them? >> do the contractors get their