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resistance from
*   librarians, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has set limits on its
*   program seeking the help of librarians in "detecting Soviet spies."
*   
*   Under the Library Awareness Program. which the FBI says has been in exist-
*   ence for years, librarians have been asked to report suspicious-looking
*   people who might be Soviet spies, to be alert to which books and periodi-
*   cals such people read or check out and to disclose the names and informa-
*   tion about book borrowers suspected of using libraries for espionage
*   purposes or recruiting library users for espionage [what???].
*   
*   FBI Director William S. Sessions said the bureau would continue to contact
*   public, university and corporate libraries in the New York City area about
*   "hostile intelligence service activities at libraries." [fuh-gedda-boutit]

Of course, they know all the books you've ever bought using credit cards.

Fear, loathing, hysteria, and a loosening of the rules for "national security":

*   "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*   
*   After the Oklahoma City bombing, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick
*   and FBI Director Freeh announced that they had decided to reinterpret
*   twenty-year-old Justice Department guidelines originally put in place to
*   restrain the FBI from violating the constitutional rights of political
*   dissidents.
*   
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