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Offline Kosh

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Students must be terrorists!!!!!!!!!!!
on: September 02, 2006, 01:57:02 am
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/washington/01educ.html?ex=1314763200&en=44dfe85c44b33172&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss


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Under the program, called Project Strikeback, the Education Department received names from the F.B.I. and checked them against its student aid database, forwarding information. Each year, the Education Department collects information from 14 million applications for federal student aid.

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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Students must be terrorists!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply #1 on: September 02, 2006, 04:19:28 am
I don't really see the problem here.

You did knowingly give your information to the government, and the F.B.I. is asking for information on specific people, not getting everything on anyone who applies.
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Offline Rictor

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Re: Students must be terrorists!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply #2 on: September 02, 2006, 09:56:55 am
Project Strikeback? Do they have some 13-year old sitting around thinking up what sounds to him like coool soundng names? Oh US government, how you have fallen.
 

Offline vyper

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Re: Students must be terrorists!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply #3 on: September 02, 2006, 10:10:40 am
Indeed. "Mahattan Project" or "Operation Barbarossa"  vs. Project Strikeback.

Nah sucks balls really, doesn't it?
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Offline Janos

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Re: Students must be terrorists!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply #4 on: September 02, 2006, 10:24:44 am
operation Swordfish
lol wtf
 

Offline Ulala

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Re: Students must be terrorists!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply #5 on: September 02, 2006, 12:44:15 pm
Reindeer effect!  :p
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Offline Polpolion

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Re: Students must be terrorists!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply #6 on: September 02, 2006, 12:50:41 pm
Quote from: Rictor on September 02, 2006, 09:56:55 am
Project Strikeback? Do they have some 13-year old sitting around thinking up what sounds to him like coool soundng names? Oh US government, how you have fallen.

It's not a cool name? :( I thought it was a cool name when I ma--- umm, never mind...       :p
  

Offline SadisticSid

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Re: Students must be terrorists!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply #7 on: September 02, 2006, 04:39:08 pm
I can't see how one could get indignant about this either. If the police in this country want to investigate you for criminal activities, they can get information on you held by the state with a warrant. Besides, it wouldn't make sense to investigate 14 million students for terrorist connections, or be feasible.
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