On capitol hill there are calls to overhaul the way security clearances are given. The office of Personnel Management looked important information. Edward snowden, Chelsea Manning and aaron alexis. Snowden and manning had reams of classified documents and alexis killed dozens of people at the navy yard. Aaron alexis was profoundly psychotic when he hunted employees in a u. S. Navy office in 2013. He was armed with a shotgun and a clearance to handle military secrets. He was able to exploit his access to building where he murdered his colleagues. 12 of his colleagues. Others wounded. Reporter Paul Stockton is a former assistant secretary of defense who led an investigation in to the massacre. What was with it about his security clearance that jumped out at you right from the start . Aaron alexis should have never been granted a security clearance. Reporter this is a draft the public has never seen of a separate federal investigation in to the allege ai lex sis case. In his security clearance application, alexis said he lived in seattle but worked in manhattan. No one asked about that. Alexis told the investigator that a felony arrest on his record for letting air out of someones tires. He didnt mention that he let the air out with a. 45 caliber glock handgun. That detail was in a Seattle Police report that also said alexis had a blackout fuelled by anger. But theres no record any that kind of violent behavior, that problem of impulse control, that should be a prime signal that this person is not, repeat not appropriate to have the trust associated with a security clearance. Reporter aaron alexis Background Investigation, like most, was done by a private company under contract with the federal office of Personnel Management, known as the opm. Opm sends the results of its investigation to the various federal agencies and those agencies decide whether to grant the security clearance. Demand is enormous. More than 4 million americans have security clearances and opm conducts 600,000 security clearance investigations a year. That comes to 2,000 a day. After 9 11, the number of people who gained security clearances were rapidly, in fact tripled since 9 11 and today. Was opm prepared for that . There was an enormous backlog of security clearance investigations and congress decided getting rid of that backlog and increasing the pace with which investigations could be conducted was very, very important. It was a top priority. We literally had stacks of files on the floor because we had nowhere to put them. Reporter brenda parsons, and linda dei were three people at the department of defense who granted or denied clearances based on the investigations of the office of Personnel Management. They were called adjudicators and they have recently retired. I consider opm to be the jv of Background Investigations. Not the varsity team. Not the varsity team. They told us that opms investigations often have major omissions. Some even skip the required interview with the person applying for the clearance. The office of Personnel Management says, look, theres a well work on it again. We would send a josht of them back. No one would ever get a clearance. The files were that defective . Yeah, they were that defective. Another defective file involved Army Private Bradley manning. Did you have any reasoso to doubt manninins loyaltyo the United States in. Yes. Reporter in 2009, she was mannings supervisor in an Intelligence Unit headed to iraq. I pointed to the patch of our American Flag that was on my shoulder. I said what does this flag mean to you and he said i i meaea nothing to me. I hold no allegiance to this country and the people in it. Reporter how does he get a top secret security clearance . Thats a good question. Reporter mannings security clearance investigation failed to check a complaint that his step mother made with oklahaha city police. If they had, they might have heard her 911 call. My husbands 18yearold son is out of control and just threatened me with a knife. Reporter if investigators had checked his enlistment papers, they might have seen that he wrote that he joined the militata to sort out the turmoil and mess in my life. Before mannings top secret clearance was granted, he stabbed a soldier with a pencil and was ordered in to counselling for fits of rage. Superior. And told them what . I said he cannot be trusted with a security clearance. We cant deploy h h and hee most likelyy a spy. Reporter she told us her superior said they couldnt afford to lose a man with a in iraq. The said she confronted manning after he repeatedly violated the rules, including sneaking a camera and recordablbl cds in to this high Security Intelligence vault. He screamed at the top of his lungs and came and punched me right in the face and body i put him in a hold. I asked him if this is what he wants. And he said he is just tired of everybody watching his activities. Reporter this guy has done multiple things at this point that a soldier could be courtmartialed for . Yes. Hes a train wreck . Yes. And his security clearance never gets pulled . Correct. Reporter over eight months, manninin used the cds to record hundreds of thousands of secrets in that vault, and deliver them to the website with wikileaks. I was sick. But it didnt surprise me. I knew it all along. Reporter manning was sentenced to 35 yrs in prison where she is now known as Chelsea Manning, a transgender woman. In 2009, linda deis office at the pentagon relied on opm investigations of soldiers like manning to decide whether to grant security clearances but dei begeg to spect problems with the fbi name check. A search the fbi does of its criminal database a at the request of opm. She saw cases where cleempbss were granted before the results of the fbi were complete. I was alerted to potential problem when all of a suddenen an investigation that opm closed over a year before now included classified information from the fbi name check. How important was that piece of informatioio that fbi report in making an adjudication . I thought it was probably the most important lead in an investigation. Considering that an adjudicator is to try to determine whether subject is loyal to the United States, the kinds of crimes thth e fbi investigates, sabotage, espionage, terrorism, thats what that lead told us. Reporter linda dei wasnt the only one suspicious. The federal investigator looking in to aaron alexis case wrote in his report the fbi name checks appeared curious. As a test he decided to examine at random top secret security clearance investigations for translators who were working in iraq and afghanistan. He wrote, we reviewed the investigative files of ten. The opms report shows none of f the subjects had an fbi file, when in fact there were fbi records on seven of the ten. Are there people today who have clearances and should not have them . Yes. We have spies in our midst. Im convinced of it. Reporter john is a a former deputy secretaryry of defense who chairs the defense policy board that advises the pentagon. It is obsolete in my point of view. Reporter because the foundation of each investigation is a questionnaire called a standard form 86 which the applicant fills out himself. Aaron alexis got away with lying on the form about his gunretated arrest and manning lied about his mental health. Also, regulations dont allow investigators to search the applicants social media because of privacy concerns. Its amazing what p pple w wl say on their facebook account that they dont say on security clearance. Reporter edward snowden, the National SecurityAgency Contractor that pulled off the biggest theft of u. S. Secrets ever had a Background Investigation no better than mannings or aaron alexis. When we have f flures they are catastrophic. The failure with snowden was catastrophic. So our big elaborate, expensive system didnt prevent something you can see more of scotts report on our website cbs news. Com. Overnight news will be right back. Uhuhoney, isnt that the dogs towel . dog noise hey, mi towel, su towel. More gain scent, plus oxi boost and febreze for 3 big things in one gain fling. Choose to move freely. Ve free ultra has tripleaction n pport for your joiois, cartilage and bonene in one tiny pill. Move free ultra. Get your move on. And now try ve free night. The first and only 2in1 joint and sleep supplement. The International OlympicCommittee Said it is ready to strip medals from any russian athletes found guilty of doping and ready to retest some blood samples from the 20140 sochi olympics. An investigation found a widespread statesponsored included athletes, coaches, government officials and even the kremlins spy agencies. Elizabeth palmer reports. Mariya savinova won gold in the 800 meters in londons 2012 olympics, but now she, along with nine other athletes and coaches, faces a lifetime ban. The worldantidopingg agencys report named them as suspect cheats. American runner Alysia Montano was beaten by Mariya Savinova. We reached her on skype. More than anything, never getting back those moments. Those moments that you stood on top and held your head high and you were proud of. I dont see how those individuals can be proud of themselves at that moment. Reporter championship and olympic results in athletics going back years, wherever the russians won are now being reassessed. The report says not only athletes were involved but so re russian antidoping officials andven the state security services. The report alleges that russians engaged in systemic doping, took bribes to dont seal test results and destroyed incriminating samples. Travis tiger is head of the u. S. Antidoping agency. The evivince doesot suggest anything other than a statesupported system to win at all costs and rob clean athletes on the global playing field. Reporter sport and performance enhancement goes back a long way. Right back to the soviet union. When winning on the world stage was seen not only as a sport but also as a political victory. In modern russia, too, president putin leading by example has put sport front and center in his campaign to boost his countrys prestige with the high point coming in 2014 at the Winter Olympics in sochi. These antidoping agegey tarnished russian shahs reputation it face agency possible ban on athletes competing in the next olympics in rio. Be right back. Seaworld announced plans to end the controversial killer whale show at one of the parks in california. Critics say much more needs to be done. John blackstone reports. Reporter critics say this is no more than a Public Relations move that does nothing to improve the whales living conditions. Seaworld plans to end the ie dontic killer whale show at the end of next year, in favor of what it calls a new orca experience that highlights, more of the species natural behaviors. The crowe joel nning. It is focused on the natural stetting, Natural Environment and natural behaviors of the whale and have a strong conservation message. Publicity in the aftermath of the 2013 documentary blackfish. The film portrayed seaworlds treatment of orcas as a form o o psychological torture and documented the violent death of trainer dawn brancheau during a live show in 2010. I just remember saying to myself, not dawn. It cant be dawn. Reporter blackfish featured former seaworld trainer john hargrove. A harsh critic of his exemployer. You have to look at their history to reali\e this is about money. This is about profit. This is about greed. This is about entertainment. I think it is very transparent. Reporter seaworld has been suffering from low attendance and Company Stock has fallen by more than 50 since the release of blackfish. Hargrove says seaworlds new approach is more of a smoke scen and to wi back public support. At the end of the day, those tank and they are stare ing at concrete walls and their calves are separated from their mothers and thats their lifif captivity is captivity. Reporter despite the changes at seaworld san diego park, the whales will remain there, at least for now. The congressman announced plans last week to produce a law that will ban breeding captives nationwide. These majestic creatures are meant to travel 100 miles a day and cannot be contained in a small tank. This is morally and ethically unacceptable and needs to be the last generation of killer whales in captivity. Reporter it appears for now seaworlds parks in orlando and sasaantonio have no plans to eliminate the theatrical aspect of their killer whale shows. Thats the overnight news for this wednesday. For some of you the news continues. For others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city. Hackers pulled off the biggest threat of americans financial information. She lost an olympic medal to two russians who are accused in a massive doping scandal. They are thieves. 150 years later, the story of the man who sent alice in to wowoerland. Hes an elusive figure. Like a blob of mercury. A jet crashed in to an Apartment Building in akron, ohoh. At building and an adjacent homemeere engulfed in flames. Police say best they can tell no one was inside of either building but survivors from the plane are unlikely. We are going to go to our transportation correspondent who is following this. Kris . Police say it was a twin hawker business jet that went down. Two people are dead. The number is expected to rise. There are reports up to nine people may have been traveling on that small plane. Investigator says no one on the ground was hurt when the plane crashed a little before 3 00 p. M. As it approached the citys airport. Witnesses saw the crash. Landed and it just blew up. It just sounded like gun fire going off, like ammunition keep going off. Everything was gone. Looked like a bomb exploded. There was no plane, buildings, all the cars were on fire and looked like the second apartment housus somebody cut it in half. The ntsb and faa are sending investigators to the scene. At this point there is no word on the cause. The weather at the time was light drizzle and light winds. Kris, thank you very much. In another important story tonight, it was an ingenious crime. Three men have been indicted in the biggestst theft ever of customer financial information. Federal prosecutors say the hackers broke in to institutions including jpmorgan chase, dow jones and scot trade. More than 100 million customers personal information was stolen and then used against them. More now from jeff pegues. By any measure she data breaches were breath taking in scope and sietz. The seem affected 83 million customers at jpmorgan alone. According to court dococents the and two other men used Hacking Software to break in to the accounts of customers. They then used that information to carry out the cyberversion of a classic stock scheme called the pump and dump. According to prosecutors heres how it worked. Over three years, the hackers bought p pny stocks andnd drove up their prices. They sent spam emails to customers whose data was stolen encouraging them to buy those stocks. When the prices went up, the suspects cashed out, leaving investors with significant losses. It worked so well shalon bragged about it in emails contained in the court papers when asked by an accomplice if it was easy to get americans to buy stocks. He replied, it is like drinking freaking vodka in russia. It starts with one Victim Company and one hack. As we dug deeper and used the vigtive tools at our disposal we uncovered the gargantuan seem uncovered today. The suspects allegedly ran illegal internet casinos that prosecutors say earned millions of dollars a month. The men then laundered the money through 75 Shell Companies and hid it in Swiss Bank Accounts ing fake i. D. S from 17 different cocotries. Jpmorgan says it is cooperating with law enforcement. Scott, as for the suspects, according to federal records they have not yet hired attorneys but two are in custody in israel awaiting extradition. A third suspect, an american, still on the run. Jeff pegues, thank you. The gop president ial hopefuls gathered in milwaukee last night for round four of their primetime debates. Donald trump and ben carson were center stage. Chris christie and Mike Huckabee were kept off the main stage and Lindsey Graham and George Pataki werent even invited. Heres what some of the candidates h h to say. Are you sympathetic to the ge works out to 31,000 a year . I cant be. The reason i cant be is that we are a country thats being beaten on every front economically, militarily. Theres nothing that we do now to win. We wont win anymore. Our taxes are too high. Ive come up with a tax plan that many, many people like very much. Its going to be a tremendous plan. I think it will make our country and our economy very dynamic, but taxes too high, wagegetoo high. Were not going to be able to compete against the world. I hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is. People have to go out and work really hard and get to the upper stratum. Wewe cannot t this if we are going to compete with the rest of the world. We cannot do it. Do not raisi the minimum. I would not raise the minimum. As far as the minimum wage is concerned, people need to be educated on the minimum wage. Every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobleses people increasas. This is particularly a problem in the black community. Only 19. 8 of black teenagers have a job. They are looking for one. Thats because of those high wages. If you lower the wages that comes down. I can remember as a youngsgsr, you know, my first job working in a laboratory as a lab assistant. Multiple other jobs but i would not have gotten those jobs if someone had to pay me a large amount of money, but what i did gain from those jobs i