The questionnaire seems pretty fair, to be honest.<p>If someone has access to weapons, tried to travel to a terrorist training camp, has mental instability issues, supports use of violence as well as using religion as a justification for violence and follows all the ISIS social media accounts, I'd be pretty worried.<p>I didn't see any questions about "does the individual holds a significant distrust of government and institutions?" or "does the individual own multiple anarchism books?". All the questions are very specific and practical.
Honest question: is this the type of material that should be leaked? Is there an overriding good to revealing this document to the public?<p>I lean towards no, but I'd be interested in discussion on this.
Access to weapons: most of America, or all of America depending upon whether shopping is considered access and how 'weapons' are defined.<p>Has 'trained' overseas: anyone with a passport.<p>Has 'tried to acquire' bomb-making materials: Reading a book is not illegal. Clicked on the wrong torrent?<p>Using encryption: everyone.<p>Masking internet browsing: everyone.<p>Showing an interest in terrorist events: everyone.<p>"participating in activities that simulate military or operational environments": anyone who has ever been camping/hiking/played an FPS.<p>Changed appearance or habits? everyone.<p>Has "experienced a recent personal loss or humiliation"? Many people.<p>Has a history of mental health problems? A large proportion of the population.<p>Substance abuse. Almost everyone.<p>Hold a belief or ideology that supports the use of violence? Oh what, like "are they a current or former member of the military, politics, or big business?"<p>This is all really disconcerting in its vagary and scope for misapplication.
I'm curious how it's ok for a US company (The Intercept) to publish a Secret document?<p>The documentcloud.org file clearly shows: <i>Contributed by: SooHee Cho, The Intercept</i>.<p>And the documentcloud.org server itself appears to be located in the US as well.<p>Seems like something you could go to jail over.
Assuming the list was derived scientifically, then this seems like a pretty sensible and useful law enforcement tool. It can be easily filled in by front line officers and gives them a good idea which lines of investigation to pursue.
> "Does the Subject hold a belief or ideology that supports the use of violence?”<p>To the best of my knowledge, the answer to this is yes for every US president and Founding Father.<p>Or to put it another way, what a dumb question.
Are we into precrime now? A criminal is one who is proven in court to be a criminal. Civilized societies use courts to decide the truth, not questionnaires filled out by shady people.
Do you not understand the lesson being taught by such an exercise? It sounds like instead your biases made you think the school civics class would be teaching students <i>how to profile people as terrorists</i>.<p>You really are an idiot.