Embracing the Police State Mentality at ED

A disturbing story from the Times about Spellings's latest intrusions into the lives of people who do work for the Department. This is the same ED that wants a national database to track students from the time they are subjected to their first kindergarten tests. A clip:

As a condition of his work for the federal government, Andrew A. Zucker was willing to be fingerprinted and provide an employment history. But then he was asked to let federal investigators examine his financial and medical records, and interview his doctors.

Dr. Zucker was not tracking terrorists or even emptying the trash at the Pentagon. He was studying how to best teach science to middle school students. He was stunned at the breadth of the request for information.

“To me, personally, it’s shocking,” said Dr. Zucker, who worked for a contractor doing research for the Education Department. He withdrew from the job. . . .