Libraries and the patriot act

From USA Today:

Librarian's brush with FBI shapes her view of the USA Patriot Act

It was a moment that librarians had been dreading.

On June 8, 2004, an FBI agent stopped at the Deming branch of the Whatcom County Library System in northwest Washington and requested a list of the people who had borrowed a biography of Osama bin Laden. We said no.

I find this sort of thing too frightening for words...