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Ashcroft derides Patriot Act critics

"The fact is, with just 11,000 FBI agents and over a billion visitors to America's libraries each year, the Department of Justice has neither the staffing, the time, nor the inclination to monitor the reading habits of Americans," Ashcroft said. "No offense to the American Library Association, but we just don't care. . . .

"The charges of the hysterics," he added, "are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria."
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"What we've always been focused on is the scope of the law itself, and that hasn't changed at all," said ACLU lawyer Ann Beeson. "They could use it tomorrow, and we would never know. And that makes it extremely dangerous."
� Dan Eggen/BostonGlobe 09.19.03


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