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Are We Creating an Intelligence Czar or Patriot Act II?

Last week, Congress passed the Intelligence Reform Bill. Written as a response to the work of the 9/11 Commission, it restructures US foreign and domestic intelligence agencies in an effort to make America safer and avoid another terrorist attack. The legislation creates the post of National Intelligence Director who will oversee the federal government-s 15 intelligence agencies. But the final bill also contains provisions to loosen standards for FBI surveillance warrants, to make it easier to deny bail to terrorism suspects, to share grand jury information with foreign governments in terrorism cases, and many other provisions that most listeners and many lawmakers know little about. Guest host Conan Nolan speaks with journalists, the ACLU and a former federal prosecutor about these little-talked about aspects of the intelligence reform bill. (This segment was originally broadcast earlier today on To the Point.) Reporter-s Notebook: Google Goes to the Library Oxford University, for centuries the seat of learning in the western world, is lending some of its oldest books to Google so they can be scanned and read on the Internet. Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan and New York Public Library are also participating. Ronald Milne, acting director of Oxford-s Bodleian Library, and Wired magazine's Paul Boutin discuss the project, which will allow virtual access to 1,500,000 volumes from the 19th century.