Sec. 401. Enhanced personnel security review with respect to social media
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It is the sense of Congress that— the intelligence community should take appropriate measures to thoroughly and in a timely manner investigate and adjudicate prospective applicants for sensitive national security positions within the intelligence community; the intelligence community should use existing authorities to ensure robust continuous vetting for continued eligibility for access to classified information and carefully manage the speed and accuracy of the security clearance adjudication process at both the initial investigation process and throughout the career of personnel serving in positions within the intelligence community; the intelligence community must balance the increasing demand for recruiting the best talent to meet personnel requirements in an expeditious manner while still maintaining a dedicated and patriotic workforce with allegiance to the Constitution and the United States Government; the availability of social media to the national security workforce of the United States, including both private and public accounts, can enable the unauthorized disclosure of classified national security information in an instant, which endangers the United States and its partners and allies, and empowers foreign adversaries; and to ensure the loyalty and patriotism of the trusted national security and intelligence community workforce of the United States, the intelligence community must fully use available vetting resources and all authorities prescribed by law, while guaranteeing all constitutional protections of such workforce.
Section 11001(b) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: Information obtained and integrated from sources described in paragraph
(1)shall include any publicly available social media information relating to the covered individual. The enhanced personnel security program of an agency shall include a requirement that a covered individual disclose any username or alias used by the covered individual on any social media account, including both private and public social media accounts, but may not require the covered individual to disclose any password for any such account. .