Ashcroft gets snide about librarians
Apparently, he forgets what the Boss's wife used to do for a living...
Ashcroft Defends Patriot Act Powers
Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday that critics of the Justice Department's new anti-terrorism powers were being "hysterical". He especially pointed to a librarians' association and civil liberties groups who question the government's right to search library records. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.
-- NPR's All Things Considered, Sept. 16, 2003
[oh, by the way... as a preemptive strike against certain predictable brainless knee-jerkers: "shove it, Ed."]