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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 09:17 PM
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Librarians brush with FBI

It was a moment that librarians had been dreading.

On June 8, 2004, an FBI agent stopped at the Deming branch of the Whatcom County Library System in northwest Washington and requested a list of the people who had borrowed a biography of Osama bin Laden. We said no.

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050518/pork_com.art.htm
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Catt03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 09:27 PM
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1. May get much worse
Edited on Thu May-19-05 09:28 PM by Catt03
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/19/politics/19terror.html

WASHINGTON, May 18 - The Bush administration and Senate Republican leaders are pushing a plan that would significantly expand the F.B.I.'s power to demand business records in terror investigations without obtaining approval from a judge, officials said on Wednesday

No judge involved. Can't change the judiciary, just make them irrelevant.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 09:32 PM
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2. Damn, they're brave.
Wonder if anyone has noticed the catbox being moved or the fish tank lid left open yet?

I feel sorry for the hose-ear who'd ask my ESSO to cough up the patron records...
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 09:36 PM
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3. What a waste of my tax dollars
among other things.

What are they going to do with a list of seventh graders working on their current events reports?

Is the public library *really* such a hotbed for terrorists?
:crazy:
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