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Three days ago (and happily, when you choose to embed a Tweet, it includes a time and date stamp, as you'll see below), I posted the following on Twitter --

Between Snowden & Alexis, I sense that govt background clearance checks should perhaps be a bit more diligent

— Robert Elisberg (@RobertElisberg) September 17, 2013

Now comes this news story yesterday from Reuters --

"The same company that scrutinized former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden for a U.S. government security clearance said on Thursday it also checked the background of the Navy Yard shooter, allowing him to obtain a "secret" clearance.

Watch this space.  We tries nots to steers ya wrong...