This story sounds like it comes from the plot of a bad movie.
A couple of days ago the Globe reported that FBI agents will be visiting labs in the New England area.
I'm not kidding. They've already visited MIT, U Mass and BC. From the article:
Agents plan to visit many more New England colleges in the coming months and are offering to provide briefings about what they call "espionage indicators" to faculty, students, or security staff as part of a national outreach to college campuses.
Why?
The FBI's website says universities should consider the possibility of foreign spies posing as international students or visitors and terrorists studying advanced technologies and scientific breakthroughs on campus, as well as violent extremists and computer hackers.
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[HT: Corie Lok]
Alex:
Of course, no matter what the FBI finds or doesn't find, it means that the "terrorists" have won.
Not only are we taking our shoes off at airports, and we have to have passports to cross over into Canada, not we find our universities to be scrutinized for infiltration by those radical Islamists.
Or is this just a red-herring and he FBI is looking for something else?
See? My paranoia means the terrorists have really won.
Exactly.
Quiet! Big brother is watching.
Watching or reading?
Probably both... I hope the insanity stops in Nov 2008.