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Special Event Intelligence

The action on the field at the Super Bowl in Miami is between the Bears and the Colts. In a joint operations center nearby, analysts from the FBI and elsewhere are engaged in a different kind of struggle-to wade through intelligence that might stop terrorists bent on launching an attack.
 

While the information can include potentially anything about the individual's employment, credit, or past history, the most common usage of background checks refers to criminal records.