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Luis Acosta writes \"The Washington post has this story about how the Bush Administration\'s Office of Management and Budget Director Mitchell Daniels wants to \"decentralize\" U.S. government printing by having agencies separately contract for printing, allegedly for \"efficiency\" purposes. This could destroy the Federal Depository Library Program administered by GPO and increase the proliferation of fugitive documents. ALA and other organizations are fighting this, but the Federal Executive Branch is a tough opponent. \"

A September 1999 report, \"The
Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?\"
written for the National Intelligence Council (CIA.gov/nic)
by Library of Congress\' Federal Research Division (FRD)
analyst Rex A. Hudson, predicted that \"suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida\'s
Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives
(C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), or the White House,\" and pointed out that \"Ramzi Yousef had
planned to do this against the CIA headquarters.\"

While only two sentences in a 100+ page graylit report trying to second
guess terrorist\'s methods, it sharply contradicted National Security Adviser
Condoleezza Rice\'s statement Thursday that, \"I don\'t think anybody could
have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into
the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon,
that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane
as a missile.\"

 HavenWorks.com/intelligence
-Hermit !-|

(updated: 20020521- link fixed, kudos Lou Perryman)

updated: 20020920
The report\'s link has changed at least twice, try both if one doesn\'t
work:
 http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Sociology-Psychology%20of%20Terrorism.htm
 http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Sociology-Psychology%20of%20Terrorism.htm
or:
 http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Sociology-Psychology_of_Terrorism.htm
 http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Sociology-Psychology_of_Terrorism.htm

If neither work, check:
 http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/terrorism.htm
 :-(

rick sent in
This Story on The federal depository library program and how libraries are being ordered to pull materials from their collections.

\"It\'s really hard,\" the head librarian of the Government Documents Library at the University of Illinois said recently. \"We\'re librarians. We don\'t want to prevent access to information. We feel very strongly about that. That\'s why we\'re in the business.\"

ALA Councilor at large Mark Rosenzweig has called for libraries to refuse to cooperate with the U.S. Government\'s attempts to recall an accidently released report that reveals its long-denied connections to Indonesian death squads:

My question is: will libraries which have received or ordered this book allow themselves to be complicit in the UNTELLING of the story of the US responsibility for the Indonesian massacre and military dictatorship,because the State Department has decided the release of the book was
\"ill-timed\"(something to do with the fact that the new President of Indonesia is the daughter of the US deposed George Wahington of Indonesia, Sukarno)?

Would it be possible for the Excecutive Board, the Executive Director, the President of ALA, the OIF, to issue a recommendation that American libraries NOt cooperate with any program for the removal of this book from libraries, the return of these volumes, the cancellation of orders, and more positively issue a statement that libraries are not in thebusiness of controlling information by government dictat, nor in the supression of a document which finaly makes accessible the proof of long-alleged US State
Department, CIA, Armed Forces etc involvement in one of the great debacles of the late 2Oth Century? (More from Library Juice .)

More from an earlier article posted here.