The key element here is the civilian contractor-— Hewlett Packard. The interface is a civilian one for IT services.
The same kind of crap happened with a civilian employee at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard who torched the USS Miami a nuke attack sub being refitted-— because he didn’t want to work and was having “anxiety” (no kidding). He did it twice. At a cost over 400 million to fix the damage over and above the refit. They did give him 17 years in federal pen, but THIS is the kind of whack jobs— well paid ones— that civilian contractors hire. They do it because they have to staff to meet the contract... and graft their money. BTW seven people were injured by this jackass, including 3 firefighters. He didn’t want to work— and a stoppage would mean his union job would still pay him. This is what is going on.
It seems to me as if the Dept of Defense is responsible in those cases for giving nutjobs security clearances. They can go deeper into applicants backgrounds—and legally discriminate based on their findings—than an employer like HP can.
Holder is now going after employers for performing criminal background checks and passing on hiring felons, because such checks end up filtering out more black candidates—and this guy didn’t even have any felony convictions.