Sickening. and I’ve only opened one of the articles... apparently, the ‘new’ screening system doesn’t even have access to the NCIC database???????? How the frick does THAT happen??/rhetorical question..
Answer to my own rhetorical question... my God, DOJ has got to go (in its’ current incarnation, anyway)
From the third link to the articles posted...
“The Navy has been upgrading their base access by also starting to implement the RAPIDGate program.
It performs background checks on those that don’t have DOD or Federal credentials.
RAPIDGate’s system, though, also has limitations.
“Today, we only use public accessible data,” said Jim Robell, the president and COO of EID Passport, the company who runs RAPIDGate.
Robell says it’s because they do not have access to the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database, or the Terrorist Screening Database.
It was the subject of a scathing Inspector General report last year, which found that 52 felons got through RAPIDGate’s background checks.
“We have been working on this for a very long time, but it takes the cooperation of a number of government organizations to make this happen,” said Robell, who says the Department of Justice has yet to give them access to the law enforcement databases. “