President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is skipping the protocol of using the FBI to conduct background checks, according to a report. Instead, the president-elect’s team is turning to private companies to vet administrative appointees,

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candidates for administration jobs,

Donald Trump has been building up his transition team, including his controversial picks for some of the country’s highest offices. Those include alleged child sex traffickers and alleged “Russian Assets” and they may never even be vetted by the country’s preeminent law enforcement agency.