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Review used to be every five to ten years, but the Biden Administration changed it to five last year for all clearances. What's being discussed is if MAGA supporters should be reviewed deeper as they are a threat to National Security. Generally speaking how someone votes has not been an issue for clearance unless you were a member of the Communist party. The problem now is that being a member of the Republican Party doesn't mean you support Trump but if you do support him you lable yourself as a threat. It's a slippery slope. Security clearance checks scan your entire internet history going back seven years. We are seeing clearances denied due to Xbox conservations, loads for social media comments. The Security form you fill out requires you list every online handle you used over the last seven years. To not list one would be a criminal offense. So it's become a problem that MAGA is running into, their online history is creating red flags. The discussion is do they start treating MAGA like Communists and blanket ban them from public service.
every online handle over 7 years?
oh well, guess I'm really not going into DoD work now. I probably have a dozen or so that I don't even have the username saved for.
Yeah, that was new to the form. They review your finances, every location you traveled, every address you lived at, interview neighbors, coworkers, they will pull logs from social media like FB, Twitter, Reddit, Playstation and Xbox, the pull phone records and GPS data, text records, ISP records, etc. That is why people with a TS clearance should not be on social media at all. That form gives the Federal Government full access to your entire history for that seven year period to determine if you are trustworthy.
For a normal security clearance they don't go as deep, usually just financial and review for any police reports, but all give the govt the right to search everything if need be.
Yeah I don't even trust myself that much
I can't guarantee I haven't made politically spicy comments in the last 7 years and I'm usually a "trust the system" liberal
This level of transparency is dystopian.