When librarians protect terrorists

This is a mere op-ed piece from the Boston Globe, but I almost put my fist through the montior while reading it. It's just some wanker's opinion but I can't let it be. The short version of the story is that after receiving a threat against Brandeis, federal agents were dispatched to retrieve a library computer from which they'd traced something linked to the threat. They did not have a warrant for the computer, and so the library director refused to give it to them. It caused them to wait 10 'precious' hours while they got a warrant, and then they got the computer. So far, the tale is only eye-roll worthy. But then there's this little part:

The more thorny and pressing question is why a library director could even exercise the authority to block access to vital evidence requested by the police and FBI, stalling an investigation during an ongoing crime where stakes are high. More to the point, why are librarians, whose professional training concentrates on mastering the use of the Dewey Decimal System, making any decisions that affect law enforcement? By whose authority and with what knowledge are they defining and granting constitutional rights to their patrons? Where have they received training in emergency response, domestic security, and thwarting terrorist threats?

So here's the thing. If federal thugs want something, they should just fucking take it. They have guns, they have authority, if it's that important they should push the woman aside and seize the damn computer. Otherwise, since they have no warrant, they really are putting the decision in the library director's hands. If the agents have a warrant, the director has to give the computer up. There's no getting around that, it's the law. But if there's no warrant, then the librarian supposed to do a quick consultation with her local constitutional law expert, or something? For fuck's sake, if it's that important and the threat is that credible (which it seems it was) then it should be no fucking problem to get a warrant. If the computer is really, really needed it will be taken by force.

For the record, I have little to no mastery of the Dewey Decimal system.