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Backchat - 'War on Terror' hits US library.(Brief Article)
Backchat salutes the resolve of librarian Joan Airoldi, a director of the library district in Whatcom County, Washington state. According to a report written by her in USA Today, an FBI agent stopped by at a branch of the library in the summer of 2004 and requested a list of people who had borrowed a biography of Osama Bin Laden. Handwritten on one of the pages of the book was a note with the stirring messages "Let history be a witness, I am a criminal" and "Hostility toward America is a religious duty". As it turned out, this was a quote from OBL himself, but the FBI didn't see it that way - the library had a terrorist in its user ranks, and they needed to be taken ...
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...effort to keep the Patriot Act intact, there...law and hand the FBI sweeping new investigative...win passage of his Patriot Act expansion legislation...issue of granting the FBI administrative subpoena...more power for the FBI, instead focusing...of controversial ...
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...over on the spot if the FBI asks. And it's because...terrorism laws known as the Patriot Act. It lets FBI agents see customer records...not allowed under the Patriot Act,'' Finan said...representations only of the FBI.'' ``On top of it...
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- Magazine article from: St. Louis Journalism Review Corrigan, Don June 1, 2005 700+ words
...carried out under the Patriot Act that it sees as political...detail activities of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task...speech guarantees. "The FBI's intimidation and...innocent Americans." Patriot Act follies? "We were questioned by the FBI in July 2004 in Kirksville...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times July 24, 2003 700+ words
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...constitutional challenges to the Patriot Act provisions that have dramatically broadened the FBI's authority to gather...accompanying gag order, the FBI abandoned its demands...that reckless use of the Patriot Act may lead Congress to rewrite it. If the FBI doesn't correct ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times July 31, 2003 700+ words
...court order." The FBI consistently has called the Patriot Act key to dismantling...that before the act, FBI agents were "walled...Act (FISA). The Patriot Act dismantled that wall...paving the way for FBI agents to use secret...
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...powers in the USA Patriot Act approved after...that allows the FBI to secretly seize...reported instances of Patriot Act powers being abused...law allowed the FBI to issue national...11 and limit the FBI's expanded powers under the Patriot Act.
- FBI and the USA Patriot Act in the spotlight as Congress considers how to fight...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor May 3, 2006 700+ words
...last Friday, the FBI disclosed that it...provided by the USA Patriot Act that allows agents...Mueller confirmed. The FBI reports only 155...Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act - a move that does...voted against the USA Patriot Act. Senators also challenged...an overhaul ...
