'Patriot Act' Category
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Radical militant librarians kick around FBI!
December 12, 2005At F.B.I., Frustration Over Limits on an Antiterror Law This article is intriguing, but only tells about half the story. While FBI agents decry “radical militant librarians” perhaps they should be looking at what exactly they are doing. Perhaps agents are not given permission to apply USAPA so broadly because — rather than it being [...]
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Library sues over controversial Patriot Act
August 25, 2005Llibrary sues over controversial Patriot Act, By Chris Sanders, Thu Aug 25, 2005, Reuters The suit — filed on August 9 and made public by the ACLU on Thursday — calls the FBI’s order to produce library records “unconstitutional on its face” and said a gag order preventing public discussion of the lawsuit is an [...]
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Video of Discussion of THE PATRIOT ACT
January 27, 2005PRIVACY, INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM AND THE PATRIOT ACT: What Does It All Mean? (streaming Quicktime format) Speaking on the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act: Judith F. Krug, Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom; Karen G. Schneider, Chair of the California Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee and a member of the ALA Council and Director of [...]
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Ashcroft on USAPA “successes”
July 19, 2004American Civil Liberties Union : Ashcroft’s Patriot Act Report to Congress Omits Key Information, ACLU Says …The ACLU said the Justice Department also continues to inflate its claims of Patriot Act success. Numerous investigative reports have revealed that while the DOJ prosecuted about 180 cases defined as international terrorism, close to half received jail sentences [...]
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White House moves to protect USAPA
July 8, 2004White House Moves to Protect Right to Spy on Readers The White House has gone to preventive war — to protect the US government’s newly-acquired right to spy on readers as part of counterterrorism investigations, promising to veto a multibillion-dollar spending bill if these powers are curtailed.
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FBI Used Controversial Patriot Act Provision
June 29, 2004OMB Watch – FBI Used Controversial Patriot Act Provision The FBI applied to use a section of the USA Patriot Act less than a month after Attorney General John Ashcroft stated it had never been used, according to new documents. Section 215 allows the government to track the public’s reading habits in bookstores and libraries…
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Strickland, Minow and Lipinski on USA PATRIOT Act
June 16, 2004LibraryLaw Blog: Strickland, Minow and Lipinski on USA PATRIOT Act
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EFF profiles USAPA
May 21, 2004EFF: Let the Sun Set on PATRIOT Apologists justified the broad, civil-liberties corroding powers granted to the government under the USA PATRIOT Act by arguing that they would be used to put terrorists behind bars. Yet several provisions can be used against Americans in a wide range of investigations that have nothing to do with [...]
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Non-sensitive information surpressed by Justice Dept. in ACLU case
May 13, 2004ACLU Was Forced to Revise Release on Patriot Act Suit. By Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Thursday, May 13, 2004; Page A27. When a federal judge ruled two weeks ago that the American Civil Liberties Union could finally reveal the existence of a lawsuit challenging the USA Patriot Act, the group issued a news release. But [...]
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PATRIOT ACT Suppresses Challenge to PATRIOT ACT
April 30, 2004Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act By Dan Eggen Washington Post. Thursday, April 29, 2004; Page A17. The American Civil Liberties Union disclosed yesterday that it filed a lawsuit three weeks ago challenging the FBI’s methods of obtaining many business records, but the group was barred from revealing even the existence of [...]