FBI Seeks To Restrict University Student Freedoms

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."

Comments

Re:Since when

[vampirbg]

Well not exactly... US soldiers cannot stand trial before either Hague or Rome Tribunal (newer version of the Hague), since they have immunity :) So, since they cannot be convicted, they cannot commit war crimes :)

Re:Since when

[russotto]

The USA is currently approaching governments around the world and asking them to enter into illegal impunity agreements. These agreements provide that a government will not surrender or transfer US nationals accused of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes to the ICC, if requested by the Court. The agreements do not require the USA or the other state concerned to investigate and, if there is sufficient evidence, to prosecute such a person in US Courts. Indeed in many cases it would be impossible for US courts to do so, as US law does not include many of the crimes under the Rome Statute.

So the US government is attempting to prevent prosecution by an international court of US nationals for, while they were under US jurisdiction, committing actions which are not crimes in the US? Sounds like that for once, the US government is doing it's job.

Re:Since when

[Doddman]

this one's gonna be offtopic but consider the following:

the crusades happen around the year 1300 (roughly). right when christianity was 1300 years old.

islam is now roughly 1300 years old.

think about it.

Re:...and?

[corbettw]

war against a nation without a declaration of war and thus the express permission of Congress and the American people (such as the war powers dictate)

Yeah, because no American President has ever invaded or attacked another country without a declaration of war before.

Wilson -> Mexico, Russia
Truman -> Korea
Johnson -> Vietnam
Nixon -> Cambodia
Carter -> Iran
Reagan -> Grenada, Libya
Bush Sr. -> Iraq, Panama
Clinton -> Bosnia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq

It's exactly that kind of overstatement that is the problem. You don't have to like Bush's policies, but please don't pretend that he's doing something unique and original. In many ways, he's simple standing on the shoulders of giants, so to speak.

This is why I really really hope that Rodham-Clinton or Obama win in 2008: maybe then the left in this country will realize that ALL politicians are lying scum out to ruin our rights. But then they ignored Clinton's excesses for eight years, so they can probably ignore someone else's for four or eight more.