ALA welcomes Department of Justice decision to rescind destruction request

[Ruby Romaine]

WASHINGTON, DC - The American Library Association (ALA) today welcomed the Department of Justice's decision to rescind its request that the Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents instruct depository libraries to destroy all copies of five Department of Justice publications addressing forfeiture. The Justice Department claimed that the documents are "training materials and other materials that the Department of Justice staff did not feel were appropriate for external use." ALA disagreed with this categorization of the public documents, two of which are texts of federal statutes, and with the instruction to destroy them. ALA trusts that there will be no repetition of such unjustified instructions to destroy government information.

http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=news&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=72299

(mods-LBN--date says 8/2/04 but this was just posted)

[Walt Starr]

1. The Crisco Kid had to see this wasn't playing well in Peoria

Especially after the Obama speech.

[NashVegas]

2. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x725848