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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: stockman_scott who wrote (459214)9/15/2003 11:23:40 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
For all those whose panties are in a bunch......

Ashcroft Rips Anti-Patriot Act 'Hysteria'


Ashcroft Rips Claims That Patriot Act Can Snoop Into Americans' Reading Habits As 'Hysteria'



The Associated Press



WASHINGTON Sept. 15 —

Attorney General John Ashcroft denounced as "hysteria" the contention by some librarians and civil liberties groups that the FBI can use a new anti-terror law to snoop into Americans' reading habits.

In a speech Monday to an American Restaurant Association conference, Ashcroft said people are being wrongly led to believe that libraries have been "surrounded by the FBI," with agents "dressed in raincoats, dark suits and sunglasses. They stop everyone and interrogate everyone like Joe Friday.

abcnews.go.com
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