Wall Street Journal
By Damian Paletta
December 14, 2015
The
U.S. Department of Homeland Security is working on a plan to scrutinize
social media posts as part of its visa application process before
certain people are allowed
entry into the nation, a person familiar with the matter said.
The
move is part of a new focus on the use of social networking sites
following the shooting rampage in San Bernardino, Calif., the person
added.
Currently,
DHS only looks at these postings intermittently and as part of three
pilot programs that began in earnest earlier this year. It’s unclear how
quickly a new
process could be implemented, and other details couldn’t be learned.
Investigators
currently are looking for clues in Facebook posts, computer records,
and elsewhere that might have hinted at the intentions of the
husband-and-wife team
Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, accused of killing 14 people at a
holiday gathering on Dec. 2 before dying in a shootout with police.
Ms.
Malik lived most of her life in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, but moved to
the U.S. in 2014 on a K-1 visa—the type given to fiancées of
Americans. The day of the shooting,
Ms. Malik pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State terror
group on a Facebook account registered to a pseudonym, and
counterterrorism officials are looking to see whether she made similar
social media posts in the past.
The
pilot programs currently used by DHS do not sweep up all social media
posts, though government officials have kept details of the programs
closely held, as they do
not want to reveal the precise process they use to try and identify
potential threats.
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