This marked the beginning of a year-long battle that was to pit the four Connecticut librarians, barred from speaking publicly and identified only as "John Doe Connecticut,"against the full might and power of the national security state. but as the Bush administration was about to learn these librarians were not going to be so easily "shushed."-54.......When President Bush rammed the PATRIOT Act through a fearful Congress shortly after the 9/11 attacks, he could count on rolling over cowed senators and a traumatized public. But there was one adversary Bush hadn't counted on: America's librarians. These unsung guardians of democracy were about to teach a lesson to the president that they normally reserve for unruly kids in the reference section: Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned. -55/56