There has never been a more urgent need to preserve fundamental privacy protections and our system of checks and balances than the need we face today, as illegal government spying, provisions of the Patriot Act and government-sponsored torture programs transcend the bounds of law and our most treasured values in the name of national security.
Librarians' NSL Challenge (05/26/2006) In August 2005, the ACLU disclosed that the FBI used a "National Security Letter" statute to demand records from an organization that possesses sensitive information about library patrons, including borrowed reading materials and Internet usage.
