I want to get a little more detail, because here's what I'm worried about. If we don't find out how this happens, then how are we going to have assurances that you have mechanisms in place to make sure it doesn't happen again?
I appreciate and respect the fact that it's done and taken care of, but there are some things here we want to get to the bottom of. Again, it's nothing to do with individuals--people move and so on--but it's about positions and systems and processes being in place to adequately protect national security.
I want to go to another issue that was pointed out in the audit. There had been 24 contracts awarded before contractors were given their security clearance. This is under a “secret” level of security clearance. For four of those contracts, the work was completed before the contractor was cleared. How? How can that be?