Former Attorney General Bashes Librarians on Today Show

On the NBC Today show this morning, former Attorney General Edwin Meese apparently made the following statement in reference to the Patriot Act: “librarians are more interested in pushing p****graphy than fighting terrorism.”

  • The American Library Association (ALA) President Carla Hayden responded as follows: “Similar to our current Attorney General, Mr. Meese chose to malign librarians rather than address the real and substantive concerns of millions of Americans and members of Congress. Whether or not the government is using the expanded powers provided by the USA PATRIOT Act in libraries, we must ask: Should the government have the power to obtain Americans’ reading and other personal records without showing probable cause?”
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