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...Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will still be able to access Harvard patron borrowing records—a power Harvard officials argue may have a chilling effect on academic freedom—if Congress renews the Patriot Act now that lawmakers and the White House have reached a compromise on controversial aspects of the legislation...
Harvard’s long-standing concerns about the Patriot Act have not been adequately addressed by the three proposed changes to the revised Patriot Act legislation announced last week, according to Director of the Harvard University Library Sidney Verba...
...ever discussing it. The compromise would set a time limit on this controversial ban by specifying that libraries can challenge this “gag rule” in court after a year has passed, according to a statement released by the Republican senators who voted against long-term Patriot Act renewal in December...
...third part of the compromise, a provision of the Patriot Act revision—which specifies that NSL recipients can consult with an attorney but must identify that attorney to the FBI—would be removed so that recipients have access to legal counsel without FBI notification...
Verba said that the details of the compromise are still unclear, and that a final evaluation of the legislation’s impact on Harvard will have to wait until Congress votes on the renewal sometime before March 10, when key sections of the Patriot Act are due to expire...