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ACLU files first Patriot Act challenge.(News Fronts)
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the first legal challenge to the USA Patriot Act July 30, charging that section 215 of the law violates citizens' and residents' rights to privacy, due process, and free speech by Allowing the FBI to search library, business, and bookstore records in terrorist investigations without publicly disclosing that it has done so.
"If people believe that the government is monitoring what they're reading, what they're researching, then they're likely not to feel as free to read what they want to, and that is a very troubling prospect not to just librarians but to many other Americans," ACLU attorney Jameel Jaffer told American Libraries.
The lawsuit, filed in …
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