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As the Bush Administration Pledges to Spend Millions of Dollars to Keep Tabs On Foreign Visitors, We’ll Hear a History of "Intelligence" and Security Culture From the Co-Author of the COINTELPRO Pa

With great fanfare, the Bush administration has pledged to fortify the nation’s "anti-terrorism" protections by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new computer systems to keep tabs on foreign students and visitors. The nation’s approximately 600,000 foreign students have come under particular scrutiny since the September 11 attacks.


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