background check that they actually have to go through? so it depends on the type of work they re doing and the level of classification they have to be granted. in the case of alexis, i bet you it was either at the confidential or the secret level so there s a certain security clearance process for that. not like edward snowden who was at a tssci compartment, totally different. so it s not difficult to get a secret security clearance in washington as a contractor. and i think the missed signals here, such as the gun discharge in seattle, the lack of a seattle, you think that it just wasn t the seattle incident, even on this low-level access that he was looking for and the seattle incident been available to the background checker at the time, he wouldn t have been approved. if that was put into the system, if there was a traditional background check, that should have raised a flag. the fact is with both his gun event in texas and then in the state of washington, neither one