I showed leaked NSA slides at Purdue, so feds demanded the video be destroyed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10354181

You gotta wonder what's going through their heads when the slides are freely available in thousands of places across the internet. Do they WANT to appear so weak? There is no point of such an action except to make them look like morons and instill resentment.

He made a good point about this in the article. It sounds like in principle they don't want someone else dictating which documents get de-classified and which don't.

I'm assuming this way they can hold people liable even after the fact instead.

In former East Germany they'd be proud of this. So, when will Purdue regain its backbone and kick these political officers off their campus and stop doing classified research?

I don't think the author is suggesting Purdue should cease all classified research, but that the rules governing classified research should only apply to that research, not all of the university.

The question he poses is extremely interesting: are students at Purdue effectively banned from doing a thesis on the foreign policy implications of the Manning or Snowden leaks? That would be very black mark on their record.