Monday, December 19, 2005

DHS monitor inter library loans

A student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has recently had a visit from a couple of federal agents after requesting a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's "The Little Red Book." The agents told him the book was on a watch list, so presumably branches of some agencies are monitoring interlibrary loans quite extensively? The PATRIOT Act gives federal authorities the right to access people's library records. The student had been doing research for a class paper on communism.

Update: Xeni Jardin wonders if this story is a hoax.

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