security clearances from government officials or from other contractors? >> well, look, a security clearance comes essentially from the united states government because it is clarent to be in a classified work space or get access to documents classified, all of it by the u.s. government. now as a contractor, he may have worked in a program that was run by other contractors, but his clearance would have gone through. some type of system sanctioned and approved by the navy, by the u.s. government. the congressman's raising the question were these government systems sufficient and a lot of questions being asked about that, wolf. >> i've heard reports, i don't know if it's true that sometimes the government actually contracts out the granting of security clearances to some contractors. i just want to make sure we have accurate information on that. and very quickly, he got an