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:...and?

[nurb432]

I *never* said he was perfect. It just has gotten really old to hear them complain that *everything* bad that goes on in government ( hell, even non government if you listen to the real wackos ) is his fault. It almost started from day one and i personally and sick of hearing it.

The 'system' has been around long before him, will be long after him. Besides the president does not have *that* much power in the first place. Its the *system* that is at fault for most of the wrongs in government, not one man.

Re:Since when

[florescent_beige]

Global radical Islam? What part of TFA or the DiA doc referenced that? I'll tell you which part, the implied part, the part that plays to your fears and prejudices that live in the FOX News (sic) part of your brain, that's which part. Because it's not stated explicitly.

Also, the FBI doesn't even aim this at classified positions. I quote: '"What we're most concerned about are those things that are not classified..." Warren Bamford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office, told the Boston Herald.'

So, according to the FBI, a grad student is not to be trusted if he comes in with a hangover, works until 3 am, shacks up with a girl from Canada, and is broke. Have any of those people ever SEEN a grad school? There is nothing BUT people like that.

One can go on and on about this. Love the section of the DIA's pocket guide to playing spy entitled "Why We Hesitate to Take Action" which lists "Fear of Being Paranoid" as a character flaw to be overcome. Funny, I thought paranoia was a mental illness. Does that mean mental illness is now a preq for working at the FBI?