False Sense of Sécurité

Mickaël Harpon, who stabbed three police officers and a woman civil servant to death before he was killed at Paris police headquarters on October 3rd, was a radical Islamist with a top secret security clearance and access to all computers in the police prefecture’s directorate of intelligence, known as the DRPP. [More]

Before I start feeling all superior, I'd like to validate that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton received the same background scrutiny as, say, a defense contractor employee who works on "black" programs.

[Via Michael G]