All Hail the Librarian

Writes C.M. Montalbano: “Please see this article from the New York Times, 12/11/05, ‘At F.B.I., Frustration Over Limits on an Antiterror Law.’ It quotes an internal FBI e-mail message criticizing the Justice Department’s Office of Intelligence Policy and Review for not always authorizing the FBI’s requests to raid library records: “‘While radical militant librarians kick us around, true terrorists benefit from OIPR’s failure to let us use the tools given to us.’ “Flee! Run away! It’s Conan the librarian! He kicks FBI butt!”