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To: Dale Baker who wrote (35701)	3/23/2007 7:57:39 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 541515

This should not be happening in our democracy.... It's not widely known that these have been issued against public libraries. There's a well known Conn case that is very much like this one. Library directors who received such national security letters were forbidden from contacting a lawyer, telling their boards or staffs, or informing any patron, particularly not the patron or set of patrons who were the object of the search. That meant the director had no way to know if the letter was legitimate or not. The last revision of the Patriot Act had a clause relaxing the admonition not to contact a lawyer. Very, very ugly. Librarians have challenged this in several ways. And are largely the ones responsible for the change in the Patriot Act.

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