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Date: Tue Jun 22 2004 - 16:11:33 PDT
From: "Karin Zilla" <karinz@certifiedemployment.com> Subject: FW: [CALIX:2607] FW: [MEMBER-FORUM:123] Just-released FBI documents confirm ALA USA PATRIOT Actconcerns Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:11:33 -0700 Message-ID: <NEBBLKCKOKHOCPLBEACCKELLDFAA.karinz@certifiedemployment.com>
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Subject: [MEMBER-FORUM:123] Just-released FBI documents confirm ALA USA
PATRIOT Actconcerns
NEWS
For Immediate Release Contact:
Larra Clark
June 22, 2004
Press Officer
312-280-5043
Just-released FBI documents confirm ALA USA PATRIOT Act concerns
(CHICAGO) Just-released Federal Bureau of Investigation documents
indicate that the FBI sought to use Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act
less than one month after Attorney General John Ashcroft told American
Library Association (ALA) President Carla Hayden and the American public
that this power had never been used. The records, turned over to the
Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) and other First Amendment
organizations, do not indicate how many times the FBI has invoked
Section 215 since October 2003.
"These documents demonstrate there is no validity in the Department of
Justice's ongoing suggestions that librarians and other critics of
PATRIOT Act provisions are 'hysterical,'" Hayden said. "The guidance
memo confirms the ALA's understanding of the scope and nature of the
business records authority granted by Section 215 and that the judicial
review is of a lower legal standard than was previously provided in U.S.
law."
The records about the government's use of the PATRIOT Act were obtained
through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in October
2003 on behalf of the FTRF, the American Civil Liberties Union, the
Electronic Privacy Information Center and the American Booksellers
Foundation for Free Expression. Five documents were released, including
a guidance memorandum on Business Records Orders and an email that
acknowledges that Section 215 can be used to obtain physical objects -
including a person's apartment key - in addition to records. To see
electronic versions of the documents, please go to
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=15327&c=262. A
further release is expected in July.
To read more about the ALA's objections to USA PATRIOT Act, please
visit http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/mediarelations/patriotactmedia.htm. As
part of the Campaign for Reader Privacy (www.readerprivacy.org), the ALA
has helped gather more than 130,000 signatures seeking amendments to the
Act.
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