Subject: Patriot Act - You're right, here's proof

BC,  I scanned through the text of the Patriot Act.  Even though I'm a huge information hound,
I wasn't about to study it tonight, so here's the relevant part.  (Link to the full text of the patriot act at the end.)

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SEC. 501. ACCESS TO CERTAIN BUSINESS RECORDS FOR FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE AND
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM INVESTIGATIONS.

   `(a)(1) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or a designee of the Director (whose rank
   shall be no lower than Assistant Special Agent in Charge) may make an application for an order requiring
   the production of any tangible things (including books, records, papers, documents, and other items) for
   an investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities, provided
   that such investigation of a United States person is not conducted solely upon the basis of activities
   protected by the first amendment to the Constitution.

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Looks to me like that would cover bookstore records.  (Looks like that covers just about anything they want
it to cover.)  Now for the nasty part where the bookstore has to keep this as much of a secret as Bush's is
keeping his governor's records:

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   `(d) No person shall disclose to any other person (other than those persons necessary to produce the
   tangible things under this section) that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has sought or obtained
   tangible things under this section.
 

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It's ridiculous.  According to this Act, they're getting an open-ended search warrant for whatever they want.
All they have to say is it's in the interest of national security and they're in like Flynn.
On top of that, whoever they serve the subpoena to has to keep his mouth about it.

Here's the link:    http://www.house.gov/judiciary/hr2975terrorismbill.pdf

~Margie