FBI Agents Back Down When Librarian Refuses to Let Them Seize 30 Computers Without a Warrant

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

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 of the library's computers...