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FBI targets universities in new scheme to recruit informers

The kind of profiling the FBI has in mind was suggested by Bamford: “It could be [tracing] a telephone number from a cave in Afghanistan that could be completely innocent or it could be something else. The problem is, we don’t have the luxury of saying, ‘It’s probably nothing.’ ”

Tracing a what, from where?

“The FBI is asking university faculty, staff, and students to create a form of neighborhood watch against anything that is so called ‘suspicious.’ What kinds of things are they going to report on? Who has the right to be snitching? One of the scary things is who [on the campuses] will take it upon themselves to root out spies?”

Well, YOU, of course. Find out whom the FBI has recruited and plant seeds to get them informing on each other. It's fun, free, and excellent business training. Have at it, students.

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