But
more fundamentally there would be no reason for anyone in the Special
Collections Library to even question the validity of the gift of the
CAC documents!
And a donor would neverbe allowed to know who or when someone is asking to review a validly granted gift of documents. That violates the confidentiality of library users. It reminds me of the concerns that civil libertarians have properly raised about the Patriot Act.
That
leaves only one possible conclusion: Someone inside the UIC Library
clearly was concerned that a critic of Barack Obama might be attempting
to examine these public records. That led to an unprecedented and, in
my view, highly inappropriate notice to the donor of the CAC documents
that a potential political critic of Obama was interested in the
documents.
They told Glenn Reynolds that if Bush were re-elected no library user would have any privacy. And they were right!
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This from one of the comments nails it: "Projection-it's what's (always) for dinner. Leftists continually attribute their worst tendencies onto their political opponents. What would they do with all the powers of government (Patriot Act, etc)? Of course they'd use them to spy, browbeat, malign and otherwise marginalize opponents. Every criticism of Ashcroft et. al from the left should be read as an admission of intent on their part."
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