Unidentified American universities are refusing to comply with feds investigating Chinese bribery of professors

For at least the last decade the communist government of China has been paying huge amounts to professors at supposedly elite American universities for...information.

During the reign of emperor Obama, no one tried to look into this, cuz reasons.  But now an agency of the federal government--under Trump--is trying to find out who's spying.  And I know you won't be a bit surprised to learn this next line:


Several U.S. universities are reportedly refusing to cooperate with federal investigations into alleged infiltration by the Chinese government through bribes and financial kickbacks.

College Fix reports that several universities being investigated by the Department of Education are refusing to provide internal documents thought to contain evidence of undisclosed financial grants from the Chinese government.  The Department of Education refused to name the institutions that have refused to comply.

Attorneys for the universities claim they don't have to provide information because of  “Freedom of Information Act exemptions and legal privileges.”

This is horse-shit.  The Freedom of Information Act was a tool to compel government agencies to release documents to ordinary citizens.  It doesn't permit universities like Hahvahd to refuse to provide documents sought in the course of a legitimate investigation.  But hey, citizen, you knew that, right?

The "attorneys for the universities" are confident you don't.

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