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On "the washington post's" main story. the headline is, broad review of government security check system launched. revel lagss that aaron alexis was twice able to pass the government's security check system despite a history of arrests, mental illness and shoothing incidents has now triggered a discussion into how background checks are conducted. the system already under scrutiny in the wake of nsa contractor edward snowden's leaks of classified information. remember, ed snowden was also a military contractor. there are 4.9 million people who hold security clearances in our country. that's acc...

Of national intelligence. and you'll remember, director of national intel jenls is a job we didn't used to v but which do now, the hugely expanded world of intelligence makes up a huge number of those security cleeshss, especially for contractors like edward snowden. but the bigger bun is defense. as compared with the rest of our government and the budget that's spent on it and the proportion of its work that is done by contractors. so much of what we do in national security now is done by contractors, that you know who has the job of deciding whether or not contractors get security clearances...