{"id":10704,"date":"2014-04-01T12:58:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T18:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/wordpress\/?p=10704"},"modified":"2014-04-13T12:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T18:00:42","slug":"politico-feds-mull-dna-testing-for-background-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10704","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Feds mull DNA testing for background checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/under-the-radar\/2014\/03\/feds-mull-dna-testing-for-security-clearances-186046.html?hp=r8\">Feds mull DNA testing<\/a> by Josh Gerstein: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Government is considering requiring DNA testing as part of the process for background checks on applicants for security clearances needed to access classified information, according to a Defense Department notice made public Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Federal Government is looking into the feasibility of using biometric identifiers other than fingerprints in the security clearance process,&#8221; the Pentagon said in response to a comment it received on new personnel security regulations for the Defense Department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: Feds mull DNA testing by Josh Gerstein:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10705,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions\/10705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}