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FBI Seeks To Restrict University Student Freedoms

Posted by Zonk on from the damned-liberal-freethinking-commie-pinkos dept.

amigoro writes with a link to the Press Escape blog, which is discussing new guidelines suggest by the FBI for university administrations. The Federal Bureau, worried about the possibility of international espionage via our centers of learning, now sees the need to restrict the freedoms of university students for national security. "FBI is offering to brief faculty, students and staff on what it calls 'espionage indicators' aimed at identifying foreign agents. Unexplained affluence, failing to report overseas travel, showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope, keeping unusual work hours, unreported contacts with foreign nationals, unreported contact with foreign government, military, or intelligence officials, attempting to gain new accesses without the need to know, and unexplained absences are all considered potential espionage indicators."

6 of 593 comments (clear)

  1. We all must agree by lufo · · Score: 5, Funny

    unreported contact with foreign [...] intelligence officials As well as been called by a 00 number and introducing themselves as "Surname, Name Surname" might be considered highly suspiciuos.
  2. Re:Since when by KillerCow · · Score: 5, Funny

    IM In UR Skoolz

    Learnin UR Competitive Advantagez

  3. Re:FUD-O-Rama by syousef · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since when is working a night job ("keeping unusual work hours") a suspicious activity?

    This is university we're talking about. Surely FAILING to pull all-nighters would be the suspicious activity.

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  4. Re:Since when by Andrew+Kismet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Objectivity clearly has an anti-Bush agenda...

    Fixed.

  5. Re:Since when by mydn · · Score: 5, Funny

    But saying 1+1=3 doesn't change THE FUCKING FACT IT = 2!!!

    That depends on when you perform rounding and what the values were prior to rounding. 1+1 does in fact eqaul 3, for sufficiently large values of 1.

  6. Re:Since when by toddestan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your objectivity clearly has an anti-Bush agenda...

    It's related to reality's well known liberal bias.