A step toward 'extreme vetting' with rule targeting social media
By CONOR FINNEGAN
May 4, 2017, 3:05 PM ET
The U.S. State Department is proposing tougher questions for some visa applicants that would include requiring thousands to give the government access to their social media accounts from the past five years ...
The department estimates that this ... would require 65,000 more hours of work per year ...
"The more effective tactics are the methods that we currently use to monitor terrorist organizations, not just stumbling into the terrorist who is dumb enough to post on his Facebook page 'I am going to blow up something in the United States,'" John Sandweg, a former senior official at the Department of Homeland Security, told Reuters ...
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