Asscroft Asked to Answer for Asinine Fascist Tactic

The Resource Shelf has a short article up about yesterday's ALA (American Library Association) press release regarding the highly charged challenge certain North TX librarians made to Asscroft's order to destroy lawbooks in public libraries. In short, the Congress is now going for his short hairs (the last link is to the PDF request by said Congresshenrys).

Here's a quote from the ALA press release:

On August 24, 2004, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Representative John Conyers Jr. (D-MI.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote Attorney General John D. Ashcroft asking him to explain the rationale for the request that GPO instruct federal depository librarians to withdraw and destroy five documents. The ALA Washington Office has been in communication with the congressional offices since the DOJ request.

Senator Leahy and Rep. Conyers Jr. said, "Given the Administration's penchant for secrecy, we fear that this action was yet another attempt to erode the public's right to know."