Originally Posted by
law dawg
My point is that most the 9/11 crew would have passed that kind of background check. A FBI check is an NCIC check, which is just criminal history, not like a background that a real clearance, secret or top secret, gets, and the FBI check is the most invasive of all the ones you listed.
I've had afew background checks for various jobs I've had. Some are very invasive, some aren't. I'm assuming the SIDA check, even pre-9/11, that allowed you to bypass security has always been pretty invasive. I have afew friends that work on the ramp in MSP and they had to be finger printed, interviewed, and a 10 year check was done on them. They had to provide the addresses for the last 10 years, and records were pulled from all those counties. Was anymore done? He was never told. That's probably part of the security of the security check.
How do they check the places they lived?
I'm assuming they'd probably hit your credit report for some of that, or possibly the IRS for addresses from your tax return. I'm sure when they request the records from the counties that they must do some sort of check on that level to verify its a real address and if a record was found, that would show they did live there.
I doubt you can get any major details on how it works. Specifics of airport/airline security measures are, more than likely, confidential information.