🚀 go-pugleaf

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.
*   
*   "If those guidelines are interpreted broadly and proactively, as opposed
*   to defensively, as has been the case for many many years, I feel confident
*   ...we have sufficient authority," Freeh told a Senate Committee.
*   
*   William Safire, the conservative New York Times columnist with libertarian
*   leanings, was appalled, asking if there wasn't anyone in the government
*   who remembered how the FBI played the game in the bad old days?
*   
*   "To the applause of voters fearful of terrorism," Safire wrote, "the pro-
*   activists declare their intention to prevent crime. This would be followed
*   by surveillance of suspect groups by using new technology, the infiltra-
*   tion of political movements deemed radical or violence prone; and the
*   stretching of guidelines put in place 20 years ago to restrain yesterday's
*   zealots