The Scottish government has assured the public that the new arrivals – many of whom have been known to agencies while resident in camps for many months – have been through "robust and thorough" screening processes before coming to the UK.
And which — at times — also appear to have been geared towards prioritizing business growth and a race for market dominance over and above passenger safety, which would very clearly be better served by more thorough driver screening processes.
Dating services are so thorough with their screening process nowadays that you end up knowing more about your blind date than you do about members of your own family.
When I spoke to Paul Donahue, the C.E.O. of the Centerra Group, the other day, he assured me that his company's security guards undergo a screening process far more thorough than the one that Omar Mateen received.
A thorough mapping of who is doing what and where in the screening process, and what the main problems are locally, is a useful way of starting the process of improvement.
The glacially slow screening process isn't necessarily an indication that TSA is being thorough, either.
The statement also said, "While all appointments are subject to thorough background checks, the University erred in this case, permitting the new hire to begin teaching before the screening process had been completed".
