February 10, 2006
FBI Agents Back Down From Attempt to Seize a Library's Computers
An e-mail threat that prompted the evacuation of more than a dozen Brandeis University buildings on January 18 led to an unusual standoff in a public library in Newton, Mass., a few miles from the Brandeis campus.
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents tried to seize 30 computers from the main branch of the Newton Free Library without a warrant, saying someone had used the library's Internet connection to send the threat to Brandeis.
But the library's director, Kathy Glick-Weil,
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