if you use the site for finding a new job or finding friends or whether you think it s way too intrusive, thanks as always for joining us, we appreciate it, we ll see you back here same time tomorrow. anderson cooper 360 starts right now. erin, thanks. good evening, everyone. we begin with breaking news. the answer, an awkward one to the question who did the background check on the d.c. navy yard killer? the guy you ll recall with a history of gun violence. turns out it was the same outfit that handled nsa leaker edward snowden, the company that did the vetting is itself a contractor, a company called usis. joe johns is with us with late details. joe, what do we know about this? anderson, the same company that conducted background check on edward snowden also did a background check on navy yard shooter aaron alexis in 2007. the company s called usis, based in virginia, one of the largest providers of background checks for the federal government. usis did the check on alexis for
company called usis, we know that now, it s a private independent contractor, one that by the way is under investigation by the u.s. justice department. and there s no question that there were problems in the way that security background investigation was done. and it s an issue that s been raised by a number of congressmen and they called for hearings on it. we have to leave there, john miller, christiane amanpour, fran towns, jeff toobin thanks very much. we ll have more on this, another edition of 360 coming up at 11:00. coming up, silvio berlusconi accused of having sex with an underaged prostitute. an international political [ male announcer ] this is betsy. her long day of pick ups and drop offs begins with arthritis pain. and a choice. take up to 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. all aboard.
revelations, these were awkward, but they were not as far reaching and damaging as we thought, there were a number of public statements like that, so is this being overplayed? shouldn t i mean, shouldn t people in the media be skeptical of the government automatically saying, this guy s going to have blood on his hands? no, absolutely i should tell you, because it s a technical program, the amount, the loss of research and development are technological advantage is very difficult to calculate, and very difficult to claw back. it takes time, it takes money, it takes research. and sao there it is a tremendous loss, make no mistake about it, whether or not this guy has blood on his hands, i think we are rightly skeptical of that claim. i would say, by the way, on the security clearance issue, anderson, it was done by a company called usis, we know that now, it s a private independent contractor, one that by the way is under investigation by the u.s. justice department. and there s
i couldn t look away. you combine that with this really effective courtroom style, and i think what was so surprising, at least to me, i ve been there since jury selection. this was a prosecutor that was sort of in the background. we ve always heard about bernie, always there, and assumed he would take charge. this john guy came out of nowhere, and really stole the show. i think it was a home run for him today. we re going to leave it there, mark geragos, jean, thanks very much, sunny as well. up next, a new twist in the irs scandal, who else they were targeting, and the latest company to drop celebrity chef paula deen. i want to make things more secure.
people from capitol hill, they said, these were embarrassing revelations, these were awkward, but they were not as far reaching and damaging as we thought, there were a number of public statements like that, so is this being overplayed? shouldn t i mean, shouldn t people in the media be skeptical of the government automatically saying this guy s going to have blood on his hands? no, absolutely i should tell you, because it s a technical program, the amount, the loss of research and development or technological advantage is very difficult to calculate, and very difficult to claw back. it takes time, it takes money, it takes research. and so there it is a tremendous loss, make no mistake about it, whether or not this guy has blood on his hands, i think we are rightly skeptical of that claim. i would say, by the way, on the security clearance issue, anderson, it was done by a company called usis, we know