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	<title>Comments on: Amazon Defeats Dept of Justice Request for Customer Records</title>
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		<title>By: Robin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ah, gotta love the Patriot Act.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah, gotta love the Patriot Act.</p>
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		<title>By: Libby</title>
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		<dc:creator>Libby</dc:creator>
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		<description>I read this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21997757/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;report &lt;/a&gt;on MSNBC a few days ago. But if you read that report, it states that NONE of the customers&#039; names were shared by Amazon; only their records. 



&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;We didn&#039;t care about the content of what anybody read. We just wanted to know what these business transactions were,&quot; prosecutor Vaudreuil said. &quot;These were simply business records we were seeking to prove the case of fraud and tax crimes against Mr. D&#039;Angelo.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;



I don&#039;t think the government should investigate what books I buy or what my reading habits are (and really, what&#039;s the point?), but if this guy is evading taxes, laundering money, committing fraud, and there is evidence that can prove that he&#039;s bilking the system...fine. Get the records. But don&#039;t share the names of the buyers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read this <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21997757/" rel="nofollow">report </a>on MSNBC a few days ago. But if you read that report, it states that NONE of the customers&#8217; names were shared by Amazon; only their records. </p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t care about the content of what anybody read. We just wanted to know what these business transactions were,&#8221; prosecutor Vaudreuil said. &#8220;These were simply business records we were seeking to prove the case of fraud and tax crimes against Mr. D&#8217;Angelo.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>I don&#8217;t think the government should investigate what books I buy or what my reading habits are (and really, what&#8217;s the point?), but if this guy is evading taxes, laundering money, committing fraud, and there is evidence that can prove that he&#8217;s bilking the system&#8230;fine. Get the records. But don&#8217;t share the names of the buyers.</p>
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