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I was just listening to a man who was formerly in charge of approving security clearances for the federal government in DC. He said that there are two main problem areas:

First, he said that contractor clearances are problematic because they give the clearance to the contracted business. It’s on that business more than the government to do an extensive background check on their employees. Many businesses obviously fail to do this.

Second, he said that the federal government encouraged him to be more lenient in passing people in DC on their security clearance. That’s because, as he put it, DC has a high percentage of high school dropouts and people with arrest records who would not pass a standard security clearance. So, as to lessen DC unemployment and not to appear discriminatory in their practices because most of the candidates who would not qualify are black, they give clearances to lesser qualified candidates. So, yes, the shooter being black likely did play a part in why he was given a clearance despite his arrest records.

Political correctness kills.