The article even suggests the answer. It may be illegal for a librarian to tell you he or she's been visited by the FBI, but it's not illegal for one to tell you he or she hasn't been.
Start compiling a list of where the librarians answer like they're in a spy movie and where they go "huh?". Publish it. Ask for the official "we have not been visited by the FBI letter", if you can get it.
If you can find where there's light, the darkness will also be visible.
A very good suggestion, and it takes very little time. Now, lets wait for the FBI to order every librarian to never answer any question about this issue...
FBI directive No-1-Amendment:
Any librarian or library employee, when asked a question that includes any one or more of these words or phrases, must answer with the phrase "42 Mu Skidoo" and then immediately turn around, walk into a private office, and call us at 1800ISpyUSA. Suspicious words include: FBI, Patriot, Act, Privacy, Bill (including "Bill Gates"), Rights, Amendment, '4th amendment', Search, Secure, Persons, Watch, McCarthy, East Germany, 'Your Papers']
But it would only take one librarian to comply with the FBI's demand. And that could be accomplished by a cluefull manager. So you would have to ask EVERY librarian and manager at a library before you would find the answer you were looking for.
The wages of sin are high but you get your money's worth.
Here's a Simple Solution (Score:3, Insightful)
Start compiling a list of where the librarians answer like they're in a spy movie and where they go "huh?". Publish it. Ask for the official "we have not been visited by the FBI letter", if you can get it.
If you can find where there's light, the darkness will also be visible.
A one minute a month solution: easy to do (Score:2)
FBI directive No-1-Amendment:
Re:Here's a Simple Solution (Score:2)