The federal government may soon be done outsourcing background checks to private companies - including the disgraced firm that cleared NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Private equity firm Providence Equity Partners purchased USIS, the government's biggest outside background investigator, in a $1.5 billion leveraged buyout. The 2007 purchase put the company deeply in debt. Since then, [...]The post Feds May Run Own Background Checks appeared first on EJB Security Consulting, Inc..