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[inaudible conversations] good morning. The committee will come to order. Welcome one and all. On monday september 16 a horrible tragedy unfolded in the navy yard in washington d. C. A very troubled individual took 12 lives in a senseless act of violence. The circumstances that led to this tragedy are multidimensional. The issues raised by this tragedy such as the adequacy of our gun laws and the quality of Mental Health care are outside the purview of this committee. But as we have learned more about aaron alexis a number of my colleagues and i have been asking each other why such a troubled ...

The others were clearly a miss take. Mistake. Congratulations. Thank you for doing double duty here in the last six months in taking this on. To our colleagues who were good enough to find a way supporting a confirmed director, i thank you for your support. As the acting director, miss kaplan oversees the office of federal investigative services. The office responsible for ensuring that the federal government has a work force that is worthy of public trust by investigating and reviewing applications for security clearances. And by performing background checks to determine whether a person is s...

Not be letting when we give them the Good Housekeeping seal of approval, which is what this security clearance is, that ought to mean something. And if they breach it, that ought for something that we consider very serious with very serious consequences. And so i applaud your work. I would like to know how many have actually been discharged or disciplined for either lying on applications. Obviously they wouldnt get the clearance. But not reporting after the fact. Mr. Chairman, again, thank you for the time. Thanks. Those were tough questions. Senator mccaskill. I think one of the most revealin...

Valuation of his access reevaluation to his access of classified material, classified facilities, none of those. And i think this is i mean, every issue raised here today is important, but if we cant get to this, the interim period between a clearance and, again, whether its a five or 10year cycle, i think well continue to have these tragic instances. In 2005, interesting, a year before ricky elder enlisted in the army, two years before aaron alexis enlisted in the navy, the department of defense testified to this committee, and this was in june of 2005, about the automated continuous Evaluati...

Will resonate with this group, testing the messages that we had with tested and found to be successful with young participants, these are the ones parents, these are the ones that actually resonated with them. And also they added some ideas about what they felt would help. Clarity. They dont want things that are, the messages are unclear. They want specifics, and they want clarity. They wanted something applicable to their own lives and something that they find motivational. They want something that is very positive. They dont want to be told dont do, dont do, dont do, because i think thats an...