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FYI. A couple of Ohio electeds are in this mix.
Kent
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Kent Oliver, Executive Director=20
Stark County District Library=20
715 Market Ave., N., Canton, OH 44702=20
W: 330 458 2710 FAX: 330 455 9596=20
KOliver@starklibrary.org <mailto:KOliver@starklibrary.org> =20
" If God had him no balls and two strikes, he'd still get a hit." -
American League umpire Steve Palermo on George Brett

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ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline

Volume 14, Number 109

November 8, 2005

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In This Issue: Urge PATRIOT Conferees to Limit Unrestricted FBI Powers
to Demand Private Data

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Urge YES Vote on "Motion to Instruct"

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On Sunday, a front-page article in The Washington Post (link at the
bottom=20

of this message) shed new light on provisions in the PATRIOT Act that
authorize FBI agents to issue, with no judicial approval, demands for
sensitive records.=20

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The power to issue National Security Letters was not included in the
sunset clause of the PATRIOT Act and therefore have received limited
attention so far from Members of Congress.

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You can help change that, by calling your elected representatives today
and urging them to sunset National Security Letters until they can be
brought under control.

=20

Sunday's article revealed that, since the PATRIOT Act changes, the FBI
has been issuing "more than 30,000 national security letters a year - a
hundredfold increase over historic norms."  The article also reported
that the FBI no longer destroys data collected through such sweeps, even
if it is irrelevant to the investigation at hand. Instead,  the article
states, the FBI has been ordered to keep the data, even when it is clear
it is on innocent Americans, and "to develop 'data mining' technology
"to probe for hidden links among the people in its growing cache of
electronic files."

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Two crucial decision points are coming up this week:

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1.    House negotiators (conferees) on the PATRIOT Act reauthorization
will be named tomorrow (Wednesday, November 9). (A list of likely
conferees is at the bottom of this email.) When House conferees are
named, a motion will be offered to "instruct" them to adopt provisions
limiting the PATRIOT Act's more intrusive powers.  The exact wording of
the motion is not settled, but it is an important opportunity for House
members to reflect continuing public unease with the unrestrained
government powers of the PATRIOT Act.

=20

ACTION: Call your member of Congress in the House of Representatives and
urge him or her to vote YES on the "motion to instruct." Capitol Hill
switchboard number is: 202-224-3121.

=20

2.    The Senate and House conferees may meet on Thursday to begin
hammering out the details of the final PATRIOT Act reauthorization bill.
As we have pointed out before, the Senate version of the PATRIOT
reauthorization bill contains important checks and balances that are not
in the House bill.  The conference negotiators can also begin to rein in
the unchecked power of National Security Letters. (Please see the bottom
of this email for a list of conferees.)

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ACTION:  Urge your Members of Congress to support the Senate PATRIOT Act
reforms and to put a new sunset on the National Security Letter
provisions and to urge their colleagues who are conferees to do so as
well. Capitol Hill switchboard number is: 202-224-3121.

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BACKGROUND ON NATIONAL SECURITY LETTERS

=20

Both the "motion to instruct" and the meeting of the conference
negotiators offer opportunities to respond to the troubling new
revelations of the FBI's unrestrained powers to demand sensitive
records.

=20

A national security letter (also called an "NSL") is literally a piece
of paper signed by an FBI field supervisor ordering a bank, a credit
agency, a telephone company or an ISP (i.e., a library that provides
public access to the Internet) to turn over financial records, credit
reports and Internet and telephone transactional records about anyone,
even about people suspected of no wrongdoing.  The FBI agent does not
need to get approval from a judge, prosecutor or grand jury, and the
recipient is permanently "gagged" from telling its customers or anyone
else about the government's snooping.  Citizens never know that their
personal information has been disclosed to the government.=20

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Neither the Senate version nor the House version of the PATRIOT Act
reauthorization bill contains meaningful reforms to NSLs.  In fact,
while both bills give recipients of an NSL the right to go to court to
challenge the gag order and the underlying request for documents, both
bills also impose criminal penalties for failure to comply.=20

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In light of the new revelations about the wide-ranging and frequent use
of NSLs, it is clear that the House and Senate should have put stronger
limits on the use of these powers. There is probably no time to craft
those standards now, however.  Therefore, Congress should "sunset" the
NSL provisions, so that they expire in 2 or 4 years unless meaningful
checks and balances can be adopted in the meantime. Certainly, NSLs
should not be expanded any further.=20

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The following Senators are the conferees who will meet to hammer out the
details of the final bill:

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Arlen Specter (R-PA), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Jon Kyl (R-TX), Jeff Sessions
(R-AL), Mike DeWine (R-OH), Pat Roberts (R-KS), Pat Leahy (D-VT), John
Rockefeller (D-WV), Carl Levin (D-MI) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA).

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The following Representatives are likely to be named on Wednesday for
the House:

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James Sensenbrenner (R-5th, WI), Peter Hoekstra (R-2d, MI), Howard Coble
(R-6th, NC), Lamar Smith (R-21st, TX), Elton Gallegly (R-24th, CA), Bob
Goodlatte (R-6th, VA), Steve Chabot (R-1st, OH), John Conyers (D-14th,
MI), Howard Berman (D-28th, CA), Rick Boucher (D-9th, VA), Jane Harman
(D-36th, CA) and Jerry Nadler (D-8th, NY).

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Washington Post article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/05/AR200511
0501366.html

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<DIV>FYI. A couple=20
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Kent Oliver, Executive =

Director</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=3Den-us><FONT face=3DArial =
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District Library</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=3Den-us><FONT face=3DArial =
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Market Ave., N., Canton, OH 44702</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN =
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face=3DArial size=3D2>W: 330 458 2710 FAX: 330 455 9596</FONT></SPAN> =
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lang=3Den-us><U></U><U><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff=20
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Serif">"</FONT></I> <FONT=20
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hit." - American League umpire Steve Palermo on George =
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[mailto:owner-ala-wo@ala.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>ALAWASH =
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 4:12 PM<BR><B>To:</B> ALA Washington Office=20
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Unrestricted FBI Powers </DIV>
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<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">ALAWON: American Library Association Washington =
Office=20
Newsline<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">Volume 14, Number =
109<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">November 8, =
2005<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">In This Issue: Urge PATRIOT Conferees to Limit =
Unrestricted=20
FBI Powers to Demand Private Data<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">Urge YES Vote on "Motion to=20
Instruct"<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
size=3D2>On Sunday, a front-page article in The Washington =
Post&nbsp;<SPAN=20
class=3D546001021-08112005>(link at the bottom =

<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><SPAN=20
class=3D546001021-08112005><SPAN=20
class=3D546001021-08112005>of this message) shed new light on =
provisions in=20
the PATRIOT Act that authorize FBI agents to issue, with no judicial =
approval,=20
demands for sensitive records. =
<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">The power to issue National Security Letters was =
not included=20
in the sunset clause of the PATRIOT Act and therefore have received =
limited=20
attention so far from Members of =
Congress.<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">You can help change that, by calling your elected=20
representatives today and urging them to sunset National Security =
Letters until=20
they can be brought under control.<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">Sunday's article revealed that, since the PATRIOT =
Act=20
changes, the FBI has been issuing "more than 30,000 national security =
letters a=20
year - a hundredfold increase over historic norms."<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; The article also reported that =
the FBI=20
no longer destroys data collected through such sweeps, even if it is =
irrelevant=20
to the investigation at hand. Instead,&nbsp;=20
the article states, the FBI has been ordered to keep the data, =
even when=20
it is clear it is on innocent Americans, and "to develop 'data mining'=20
technology "to probe for hidden links among the people in its growing =
cache of=20
electronic files."<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">Two crucial decision points are coming up this=20
week:<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=20
House negotiators (conferees) on the PATRIOT Act reauthorization =
will be=20
named tomorrow (Wednesday, November 9). (A list of likely conferees is =
at the=20
bottom of this email.) When House conferees are named, a motion will be =
offered=20
to "instruct" them to adopt provisions limiting the PATRIOT Act's more =
intrusive=20
powers.&nbsp; The exact wording =
of the=20
motion is not settled, but it is an important opportunity for House =
members to=20
reflect continuing public unease with the unrestrained government powers =
of the=20
PATRIOT Act.<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">ACTION: Call your member of Congress in the House =
of=20
Representatives and urge him or her to vote YES on the "motion to =
instruct."=20
Capitol Hill switchboard number is:=20
202-224-3121.<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=20
The Senate and House conferees may meet on Thursday to begin =
hammering=20
out the details of the final PATRIOT Act reauthorization bill.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; As we have pointed out before, =
the=20
Senate version of the PATRIOT reauthorization bill contains important =
checks and=20
balances that are not in the House bill.&nbsp;=20
The conference negotiators can also begin to rein in the =
unchecked power=20
of National Security Letters. (Please see the bottom of this email for a =
list of=20
conferees.)<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">ACTION:&nbsp; =
Urge=20
your Members of Congress to support the Senate PATRIOT Act reforms and =
to put a=20
new sunset on the National Security Letter provisions and to urge their=20
colleagues who are conferees to do so as well. Capitol Hill switchboard =
number=20
is: 202-224-3121.<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">BACKGROUND ON NATIONAL SECURITY=20
LETTERS<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">Both the "motion to instruct" and the meeting of =
the=20
conference negotiators offer opportunities to respond to the troubling =
new=20
revelations of the FBI's unrestrained powers to demand sensitive=20
records.<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">A national security letter (also called an "NSL") =
is=20
literally a piece of paper signed by an FBI field supervisor ordering a =
bank, a=20
credit agency, a telephone company or an ISP (i.e., a library that =
provides=20
public access to the Internet) to turn over financial records, credit =
reports=20
and Internet and telephone transactional records about anyone, even =
about people=20
suspected of no wrongdoing.&nbsp; =
The FBI=20
agent does not need to get approval from a judge, prosecutor or grand =
jury, and=20
the recipient is permanently "gagged" from telling its customers or =
anyone else=20
about the government's snooping.&nbsp; =

Citizens never know that their personal information has been =
disclosed to=20
the government. <o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">Neither the Senate version nor the House version of =
the=20
PATRIOT Act reauthorization bill contains meaningful reforms to =
NSLs.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; In fact, while both bills give =

recipients of an NSL the right to go to court to challenge the gag order =
and the=20
underlying request for documents, both bills also impose criminal =
penalties for=20
failure to comply. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoPlainText style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT size=3D2><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoPlainText style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT size=3D2><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">In light of the new revelations about the =
wide-ranging and=20
frequent use of NSLs, it is clear that the House and Senate should have =
put=20
stronger limits on the use of these powers. There is probably no time to =
craft=20
those standards now, however.<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;=20
</SPAN>Therefore, Congress should "sunset" the NSL provisions, so that =
they=20
expire in 2 or 4 years unless meaningful checks and balances can be =
adopted in=20
the meantime. Certainly, NSLs should not be expanded any further.=20
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoPlainText style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT size=3D2><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoPlainText style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT size=3D2><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">The following Senators are the conferees who will =
meet to=20
hammer out the details of the final =
bill:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoPlainText style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT size=3D2><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoPlainText style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT size=3D2><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">Arlen Specter (R-PA), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Jon Kyl =
(R-TX),=20
Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Mike DeWine (R-OH), Pat Roberts (R-KS), Pat Leahy =
(D-VT),=20
John Rockefeller (D-WV), Carl Levin (D-MI) and Ted Kennedy=20
(D-MA).<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoPlainText style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT size=3D2><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoPlainText style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT size=3D2><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">The following Representatives are likely to be =
named on=20
Wednesday for the House:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoPlainText style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT size=3D2><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoPlainText style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT size=3D2><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">James Sensenbrenner (R-5th, WI), Peter Hoekstra =
(R-2d, MI),=20
Howard Coble (R-6th, NC), Lamar Smith (R-21st, TX), Elton Gallegly =
(R-24th, CA),=20
Bob Goodlatte (R-6th, VA), Steve Chabot (R-1st, OH), John Conyers =
(D-14th, MI),=20
Howard Berman (D-28th, CA), Rick Boucher (D-9th, VA), Jane Harman =
(D-36th, CA)=20
and Jerry Nadler (D-8th, NY).<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoPlainText style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT size=3D2><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoPlainText style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT size=3D2><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New"></FONT></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</P>
<P class=3DMsoPlainText style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT size=3D+0><FONT=20
face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2><o:p><SPAN =
class=3D546001021-08112005>Washington Post=20
article: <A=20
href=3D"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/05/A=
R2005110501366.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article=
/2005/11/05/AR2005110501366.html</A></SPAN></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P=
>
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