This has little or nothing to do with paranoia about terrorists; it's about (not completely unfounded) concern about espionage by foreign companies and governments.
While it is chilling, given the current US administration's unremitting assault on rights and freedoms, please note that it does seem to be aimed exclusively at students in science and technology working on sensitive projects that require some kind of security clearance to begin with.
I must say I don't really get the keeping late hours bit, though. Based on that single criterion, they would have to declare every graduate student in the country an enemy combatant. Gitmo would be quickly overrun by chain-smoking, angst-ridden comparative literature majors.
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This has little or nothing to do with paranoia about terrorists; it's about (not completely unfounded) concern about espionage by foreign companies and governments. While it is chilling, given the current US administration's unremitting assault on rights and freedoms, please note that it does seem to be aimed exclusively at students in science and technology working on sensitive projects that require some kind of security clearance to begin with. I must say I don't really get the keeping late hours bit, though. Based on that single criterion, they would have to declare every graduate student in the country an enemy combatant. Gitmo would be quickly overrun by chain-smoking, angst-ridden comparative literature majors.