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Increase in domestic spying

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"Requests for the business records of individuals under Section 215 of the Patriot Act - the controversial so-called "library records" provision - hit 155 last year, up from 35 in the previous two years, according to the report and officials.

And, for the first time, the report disclosed that the FBI issued 9,254 national security letters - administrative subpoenas that do not require court or grand jury approval - to demand bank, credit card, Internet and other business records for 3,501 citizens and others in the United States."

and so it goes. Watch those library checkouts.