That's funny. Even more funny and absurd is how the whole thing is a complete and absurd mess about which the Monty Pyton ( Bless their hearts) would be able to make a briliant film.
From the article: Six witnesses and three lawmakers revealed a security clearance system so broken that it would be comical if a 29-year-old wasn’t hiding in Hong Kong and leaking American secrets to the press. 87 percent of background checks are never fully completed. USIS, a private contractor, conducts 65 percent of all U.S. government background checks. USIS, which conducted a background check on Snowden, is now under investigation by OPM’s IG for failing to conduct proper background checks. The $1-billion-dollar fund that OPM uses to pay for background checks has never been audited. OPM’s IG said they have not been granted access to documentation on the fund. Miller said the documentation did not exist. Forty other investigators are currently being investigated for falsifying background checks. With that, Thursday’s matinee of the absurd lowered its curtain.Little was revealed about Snowden. But the hearing did prove what McCaskill said in her opening statement: OPM is a “government agency where there is rampant fraud, limited accountability, and no respect for taxpayer dollars.” It also revealed how easy it was for Snowden to get access to the nation’s most sacred secrets.
