Molly Ivins, the FBI, and Librarians

I was just sitting at the reference desk, reading American Libraries, when I ran across this quote from Molly Ivins, "Another reason to worry about a huge domestic spy operation is it will inevitably be manned by nincompoops. Take this 2003 memo from an FBI agent railing at what he perceived as dreadful restraints by John Ashcroft's Justice Department: 'While radical militant librarians kick us around, true terrorists benefit from [Justice's] failure to let us use the tools given to us.' Yep, time after time, it's those radical militant librarians impeding those pitiful, helpless agents at the FBI."*

I had to look up the whole column it came from, and post a link--it's priceless.

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/1/2006/1290

*American Libraries, March 2006, p.32