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Inspector General: Background Checks Faked With Lax Oversight And Falsified Records
Birther Report
6/20/2013
Excerpt:
Background Checks Faked With Lax Oversight, Watchdog Says
By Nick Taborek @ Bloomberg
Investigators charged with conducting background checks of U.S. national-security workers have falsified records and aren’t receiving adequate oversight, according to an inspector general’s testimony.
One worker fabricated 1,600 credit checks before it was discovered her own background investigation had been falsified, Patrick McFarland, inspector general of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, said in prepared testimony obtained by Bloomberg in advance of a Senate hearing tomorrow.
While 18 investigators, including contract and government employees, have been convicted of falsifying reports since 2006, McFarland said the inspector general’s office lacks the resources to clear a backlog of an additional 36 cases.
“My office has been alarmed for several years about the lack of oversight,” he said in his written testimony. “Our resources remain woefully inadequate, preventing us from performing the level of oversight that such an important program requires.”
McFarland provided few details about the cases.
Passing a government background check is a requirement before the employee or a contractor is granted a security clearance. [...] - Continued at Bloomberg.
Falsified Records?
View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogs...nd-checks.html
Birther Report
6/20/2013
Excerpt:
Background Checks Faked With Lax Oversight, Watchdog Says
By Nick Taborek @ Bloomberg
Investigators charged with conducting background checks of U.S. national-security workers have falsified records and aren’t receiving adequate oversight, according to an inspector general’s testimony.
One worker fabricated 1,600 credit checks before it was discovered her own background investigation had been falsified, Patrick McFarland, inspector general of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, said in prepared testimony obtained by Bloomberg in advance of a Senate hearing tomorrow.
While 18 investigators, including contract and government employees, have been convicted of falsifying reports since 2006, McFarland said the inspector general’s office lacks the resources to clear a backlog of an additional 36 cases.
“My office has been alarmed for several years about the lack of oversight,” he said in his written testimony. “Our resources remain woefully inadequate, preventing us from performing the level of oversight that such an important program requires.”
McFarland provided few details about the cases.
Passing a government background check is a requirement before the employee or a contractor is granted a security clearance. [...] - Continued at Bloomberg.
Falsified Records?
View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogs...nd-checks.html