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I guarantee you, I can find in your behaviour reason to investigate you. I can find isolated facts that, when linked together, suggest that you are spying for s

I guarantee you, I can find in your behaviour reason to investigate you. I can find isolated facts that, when linked together, suggest that you are spying for someone or that you're an insurgent against your government or that you're planning a crime or something, doesn't matter what, I'll pick something to accuse you of when I get round to filling in the charge sheet. If we look for spies, we find spies. If we look for child abusers, we find child abusers. If we look for terrorists, we find terrorists (sometimes we have to create them ourselves first and then arrest them). In theory, there are checks and balances and procedures and, to be honest, sensible adults in the system to ensure that we aren't just joining up disparate facts about people into bullshit conspiracies. However, the system is not working properly and these are the victims. Also, going to China, where you have family, is suspicous now? On a tangential note, I'm (amongst other things) a naval officer; I've been to China and North Korea on holiday, more than once, and my unit security officer's reaction was to say "Wow, brilliant!", because he's an adult.

tomjen3 12y ago
I always assumed that anybody going to NK would be banned from having anything to do with sensitive things (in the US) ever again. Not that it makes any sense, but the US government is insanely paranoid (they may have to be, but from the outside it looks to be too much).
- EliRivers 12y ago
  On an even more tangential note, I had to read a list of security notes and had to say I understood them. I did not understand them. Ultimately, he had to explain the notion of "honey trap" to me with hand puppets; the breakthrough came when he explained that there were people who, upon trapping some gorgeous local and bringing her back to the hotel room for the night, wouldn't tell everyone they knew as quickly as possible.
mahranch 12y ago
> Also, going to China, where you have family, is suspicous now? Did you read the article? She went to China and met with a senior Chinese official. She then came back to the U.S and immediately started asking about sensitive and protected information. So yeah, I would say that's pretty darn suspicious.

tomjen3 12y ago

I always assumed that anybody going to NK would be banned from having anything to do with sensitive things (in the US) ever again. Not that it makes any sense, but the US government is insanely paranoid (they may have to be, but from the outside it looks to be too much).

EliRivers 12y ago
On an even more tangential note, I had to read a list of security notes and had to say I understood them. I did not understand them. Ultimately, he had to explain the notion of "honey trap" to me with hand puppets; the breakthrough came when he explained that there were people who, upon trapping some gorgeous local and bringing her back to the hotel room for the night, wouldn't tell everyone they knew as quickly as possible.

mahranch 12y ago

> Also, going to China, where you have family, is suspicous now? Did you read the article? She went to China and met with a senior Chinese official. She then came back to the U.S and immediately started asking about sensitive and protected information. So yeah, I would say that's pretty darn suspicious.