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NPR reported on the Patriot Act this morning and librarians once again made 
the air.

The Secret Court of Terror Investigations  by Larry Abramson

included is this bit:
One FBI e-mail from 2003 complains that the Office of Intelligence Policy 
and Review (OIPR) "should be embarrassed that the FBI has used this valuable 
tool to fight terrorism exactly ZERO times."

The e-mail goes on: "The inability of FBI investigators to use this 
seemingly effective tool has had a direct and clearly adverse impact on our 
terrorism cases. While radical militant librarians kick us around, true 
terrorists benefit from OIPR's failure to let us use the tools given to us."

For the Justice Department, this internal debate proves that the system is 
working. Spokesman Brian Rohrkasse says these documents show that FBI agents 
are being "held to a very high standard" in complying with procedures put in 
place to protect civil liberties.

Read it all at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5049679 
  if you can.  Not intended to start a political debate.  I've been well 
informed by this list_serv and others of the on-going struggles with the 
Patriot Act.  I'm wondering if someone has created a t-shirt with radical 
militant librarian on it?

Carolyn Roys
Lake Park High School
East Campus Media Specialist
Roselle, Illinois
crroys@hotmail.com

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