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...sheet tells Harvard’s librarians how to respond to unexpected requests for information from federal agents. Since Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act passed in October 2001, government officials no longer need a court order to review records—including users’ borrowing histories—at libraries and bookstores across the nation...
Much of the controversy surrounding Section 215 of the Patriot Act concerns a secrecy clause stipulating that federal request for information must remain strictly confidential. Libraries, in other words, can’t report in some cases whether they have received governmental inquiries...
...what concern remains isn’t making its way to the top of advocates’ dockets. Casey says the Association of American Universities (AAU), the main lobbying organization he works with, hasn’t put as much force behind opposition to Section 215 because it prefers to devote resources to legislation applying exclusively to universities...
...among library affiliates within many of the universities comprising the AAU, Section 215 remains a major concern. Harvard works closely with the Association of Research Libraries, Verba says. And since the passage of the Patriot Act concern about records has been one of its chief priorities...
...little-noticed provision in the public section of a mostly-classified Senate intelligence bill signals that the Central Intelligence Agency is more serious than ever about plans to expand its program of setting up cover jobs for CIA officers outside of the usual posts in the State Department and other government agencies. Some believe the CIA's non-official cover, or NOC (pronounced KNOCK), program is the likeliest way for the agency to penetrate terrorist organizations or even, say, the nuclear program of Kim Jong Il's closed regime in North Korea. "With terrorism, counter-proliferation - the kinds of threats...