2007-06-24 Librarians Describe Life Under an FBI Gag Order

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Date:	2007-06-24
Link:	http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070507C.shtml
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Topics:	USA PATRIOT Act US totalitarianism
Categories:	USA PATRIOT Act US totalitarianism

Librarians Describe Life Under an FBI Gag Order

“Two Connecticut librarians on Sunday described what it was like to be slapped with an FBI national security letter and accompanying gag order. It sounded like a spy movie or, gulp, something that happens under a repressive foreign government. Peter Chase and Barbara Bailey, librarians in Plainville, Connecticut, received an NSL to turn over computer records in their library on July 13, 2005. Unlike a suspected thousands of other people around the country, Chase, Bailey and two of their colleagues stood up to the Man and refused to comply, convinced that the feds had no right to intrude on anyone's privacy without a court order (NSLs don't require a judge's approval). That's when things turned ugly.”