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Federal governments role in funding state transportation projects. The federal government will start checking social media soon as part of background checks for employees seeking security clearance. White house and Counter Intelligence officials testified on the new policy at a recent House Oversight hearing. This is an hour and a 15 minutes. The subcommittee on Government Operations and the subcommittee on National Security will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Were here today to discuss incorporating social media into the federal s...

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Mr. Lynch the cost estimate. You know, we had some pilot programs that tell us its somewhere between, you know, 100 and 500 per person for a private vendor to do this screening, this gathering of social media information. Is that pretty close to what the in practice what were finding . Mr. Scott yeah, i would say some of the pilots that have run the estimates are within that range. Clearly one of the things that will have to happen, and i think the pilots will inform this, some greater level of automation. As you can probably appreciate when you do a search, you get a ton of data that has to b...

Laughter . This particular group, and we take it as a very serious threat stream, one that were concerned about and sometimes it gets lost on the public the threatbased on of isil. Is that is a threat. Probably threat is more immediate and what concerns us most about it is the working with aqap and other affiliates to put together an thats successful mainly targeted at aviation targets, i think all of that has public, but its serious and its rising up. And its interesting that where you see these operatives isnt necessarily where you might see some before. So you might see number s iraq, afric...

Reporters is very difficult. Very briefly i wanted to ask a question, the ed snowden disclosure for National Security is one very small area journalists report all over the world, at minimum, companies, private firms outside the Intelligence Community they may not go to jail for disclosing this but they have a mortgage to pay and a family to feed. Worst Case Scenario journalists i am lucky to live in a country where the worst happens, not saying it is a walk in the park, i get held in contempt. We are talking people dying and disappearing if this information is made out of sources of ours to d...