Maybe they are not so much worried as angered.

They have a right to be.

You should be angry, too.

Your tax dollars at work.

Harry:

Islam can't be both your mortal enemy and something you don't care about keeping tabs on. Especially given university ties to radicalism.

But if you mean worries about Islam are foolish then you're right.

Gee why spend money checking college meetings of Islamic types or even flight schools? Couldn't our tax dollars be better spent on things like funding the UN to improve our security? I mean look at the fine job they done preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.

Perhaps someone can explain to me why it is academia is so nervous about the government observing a beign meeting.

So lemme get this right-- it's known that Islamists use legitimate organizations as front groups for their activities. The attacks of September 11 were due in part to an intellegence failure. Checking on people who attend a meeting is a function of intellegence, including seeing if certain people showed up who might or might not be of interest. There may have been a tip to watch certain people. It may also have been attempt to spook someone into making a mistake. If there's another attack, the same people squawking about this will be in the lead to blame the current administration for another intellegence failure. So what's the problem?

I'm angry that my dollars are being used to employ fools like this Biddle person, who despite the appearance of an education, still thinks that "army intellegence" is an hilarious oxymoron.

Gee why spend money checking college meetings of Islamic types or even flight schools? Couldn't our tax dollars be better spent on things like funding the UN to improve our security? I mean look at the fine job they done preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.

Perhaps someone can explain to me why it is academia is so nervous about the government observing a beign meeting.

Academia wants to believe that it lives in a protected bubble of privacy, and can escape the sort of normal public scrutiny that everyone else in society is subject to. Somehow they think that everything they say gets a free pass under the rubric of intellectual freedom.

Army intelligence officer talks to a law student who "co-edits" the "Texas Journal of Women and the Law." Surely the stooge of the white male hetero-patriarchy wasn't expecting cooperation from such an enlightened womyn, so it was obviously all for the sake of intimidating the differently-colored and differently-plumbing-endowed, especially the adherents of the Religion of Peace.

What does that sign on Clarence Thomas's desk say?

O come off it. With mosques on every corner, I find it hard to believe that Islamists are holding their subversive meetings on college campuses.

Besides, we have a pretty good idea about how much useful intelligence this sort of thing generated in the past. None.