Intel community to start using social media in security clearance checks

Social media checks will be incorporated into federal background investigative authority for security clearance holders, intelligence leaders said.

“Social media has become an integral — and very public — part of the fabric of most American’s daily lives,” Bill Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said in a statement issued on Friday. “We cannot afford to ignore this important open source in our effort to safeguard our secrets — and our nation’s security.”