'Patriot Act' Category
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Attacks on threshold rights
March 5, 2004Crossing the threshold. By Harvey A. Silverglate And Carl Takei. Boston Phoenix, March 5 – 11, 2004. Yet the hue and cry raised over the Patriot Act has distracted most of us from the Bush administrationÕs far more dangerous assault on another class of liberties, which might be called “threshold rights.” After all, the Patriot [...]
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Government investigations vs. Academic Freedom
March 1, 2004Two stories in The Chronicle of Higher Education this week paint a picture of government agencies investigating colleges without apparent justification. The Drake Affair, By Sharon Walsh. Section: The Faculty Volume 50, Issue 26, Page A8 March 5, 2004 Texas Campus Is Puzzled by Federal Agents’ Inquiry Into Conference on Islam By Michael Arnone, Section: [...]
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Bush signs parts of Patriot Act II into law Ñ stealthily
December 29, 2003San Antonio Current. “WITH A WHISPER, NOT A BANG” By David Martin. December 24, 2003. President George W. Bush signed into law the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 on a Saturday, the day Saddam Hussein was captured. Tucked away in this law are new executive powers that expand the so-called P.A.T.R.I.O.T Act. By [...]
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Free Speech Groups Support Patriot Act Challenge
November 6, 2003Press Release. November 3, 2003. Free speech groups representing booksellers, librarians, publishers, writers and others today filed a brief that strongly supports a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the provision of the USA Patriot Act that gives the FBI virtually unlimited access to personal, organization and business records, including bookstore and library records.
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Setting the Record Straight: An Analysis of the Justice Department’s PATRIOT Act Website
October 28, 2003Setting the Record Straight: An Analysis of the Justice Department’s PATRIOT Act Website. Center for Democracy and Technology. October 27, 2003. The PATRIOT Act continues to be controversial. While the administration has vehemently defended its actions under the act and the act itself, it arguments have not been convincing to many including the library community. [...]
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Patriot Act Curbing Data Retention
October 17, 2003Patriot Act Curbing Data Retention New York Times October 13, 2003, Monday, Late Edition – Final. By Bob Tedeschi. Section C; Page 6; Column 1; Business/Financial Desk. This story explains how some retailers are concerned about the privacy of their records and are taking steps to keep their records private … and how others, like [...]
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Supermarket Loyalty Cards
October 4, 2003Baltimore City Paper: Card Games (October 1 – October 7, 2003). By Joab Jackson. This article is about those “loyalty cards” that 80 percent of supermarket chains use, granting small discounts in return for the ability to track what you buy. It is interesting to read about this and think about libraries and the issues [...]
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CDT on The PATRIOT Act and Libraries
September 30, 2003DOJ Says It Has Never Used Key PATRIOT Provision, September 23, 2003. The PATRIOT Act and librarians’ response to it are in the news a lot this week. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has been excoriating librarians; Former Attorney General Edwin Meese has weighed in as well. Tirades from conservatives have begun appearing on op-ed [...]
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We were surprised to learn that the Justice Department has never utilized Section 215…
September 19, 2003ALA | ALA renews call for legislative amendments to Patriot Act. In wake of declassified report, ALA renews call for legislative amendments to PATRIOT Act. Details previous statements from the Justice Department that said the Act had been used.
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NYTimes coverage of Ashcroft’s Speech
September 19, 2003Ashcroft Mocks Librarians and Others Who Oppose Parts of Counterterrorism Law Tom Clancy, New York Times Sept. 15, 2003. (Paper edition: September 16, 2003, Tuesday, Late Edition – Final, Section A; Page 23; Column 2.) In an unusually pointed attack as part of his latest speech in defense of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism initiatives, Mr. [...]