Librarians, U.S. attorneys squaring off

The Chicago Sun Times says that loud “Shhhhh!” you hear Monday may be the sound of 25,000 librarians reacting to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s defense of the government’s right to confiscate people’s library records. Fitzgerald has volunteered to take his campaign for renewal right into the heart of the opposition today, debating Colleen Connell, director of the Chicago office of the American Civil Liberties Union, which takes the librarians’ side.