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Last month, though, the American Library Association found at least 200 instances since late 2001 in which police targeted libraries in a hunt for information.
In one case, the names of people checking out books on Osama bin Laden were requested.
Because Section 215 makes it illegal for anyone involved in a search to make it public, there was no way the ALA study could determine if the actions were Patriot Act-approved.
The responses were anonymous to protect librarians.
sounds like a power shift at todays wh press breifing
My own opinion, expressed in this post last March, was that both the FCC and Congress overplayed their cards in 2004, inviting constitutional challenges they might have lost (in the FCC's case) and tacking on extra censorship baggage which might have doomed the new legislation (in the case of Congress).
Who supports prostitution?
Hello you pioneers who went westward ho. We need to know what happended next.
Okay, so those commencement speeches weren't very interesting, but this is a good story. Honest. To Cuba (almost) by Outrigger Sailing Canoe.
whats in a......brand-naming quiz?
Two commencement addresses if you're bored:
Senator Barack Obama at Knox College and Steve Jobs at Stanford.
Google maps has international satellite imagery. The detail of this image of Buckingham Palace is stunning.
coo coo ca-choo
Downing St. memo daily media targets
"it's J.R.R. Tolkien reading and Singing his Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers/The Return of the King it's a magnificent piece of audio and was recorded before the books publication.On this Lp Prof. Tolkien reads from his notes for the books as well as sings and chants verses of prose in elfish!, read the books in High School but I'm not a big LOTR fan boy by any stretch yet this recording always amazes me. "
does dr wilson know all of the secrets of prospect park ?
cant find the serge gainsbourg thread
blog trend tool
first jessica alba, now this?
JETER AND WANG
TAME THE TIGERS
phil spector, man or bush?
This blog will document
the in-and-outs and ups-
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renovation of our 1870's
brownstone in Clinton Hill.
The Bush Administration's aggressive response to a Newsweek story alleging that US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay flushed the Koran down the toilet in front of Islamic detainees displays the height of hypocrisy. After Newsweek clumsily issued an apology, followed by a retraction, White House spokesman Scott McClellan called on the magazine to "help repair the damage that has been done, particularly in the region," by explaining "what happened and why they got it wrong." Maybe the Bush Administration should do the same, by opening up its secret facilities for inspection to the Red Cross and other third-party observers. We are printing below a letter from reader Calgacus--a pseudonym for a researcher in the national security field for the past twenty years--that shows how the desecration of the Koran became standard US interrogation practice.
i was wondering about this. payback time baby!
