what are your referring to as TL /DR?
“The idea is that a lot of this activity will be detected by periodically checking online databases. Maybe not foreign contacts so much, but everything else on that list will pop up in one database or another.”
Oh really? So is CE going to pull every single employment record during CE within scope of their coverage period? Are we really relying upon databases to uncover all adjudicative criteria in a federal background investigation?
Subject Interviews, Source Interviews, and record checks are the investigative tools needed and required to obtain relevant and factual information coupled together with database checks of criminal history and credit. One should not replace the other. All of these things should operate together to create a comprehensive and thorough investigative product.
So do I disagree with you that online databases are the answer to doing background checks? Absolutely. Yes I do.