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Justice Dept Orders Libraries to Destroy 5 Public Documents

HeadlineAug 04, 2004

The American Library Association is reporting that the Justice Department wants libraries to remove and destroy five public documents published by the government because the Bush administration has deemed the documents to be no longer be “appropriate for external use.” Two of the documents are texts of federal statutes. The topics addressed in the documents include information on how citizens can retrieve items that may have been confiscated by the government during an investigation.

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