During his tenure as President George W. Bush’s relentlessly overzealous first-term Attorney General, John Ashcroft once engaged in a contentious public exchange with Enoch Pratt Free Library CEO Carla Hayden, at the time also president of the American Library Association. Their overtly polite, if covertly testy, 2003 back-and-forth concerned a provision of 2001’s post-9/11 Patriot […]
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