White House Edits to Privacy Board's Report Spur Resignation

[maddezmom]

Source: Washington Post

By John Solomon and Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, May 15, 2007; Page A05

The Bush administration made more than 200 revisions to the first report of a civilian board that oversees government protection of personal privacy, including the deletion of a passage on anti-terrorism programs that intelligence officials deemed "potentially problematic" intrusions on civil liberties, according to a draft of the report obtained by The Washington Post.

One of the panel's five members, Democrat Lanny J. Davis, resigned in protest Monday over deletions ordered by White House lawyers and aides. The changes came after the congressionally created Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board had unanimously approved the final draft of its first report to lawmakers, renewing an internal debate over the board's independence and investigative power.

Some of the changes sought by the administration ultimately were reversed, and some members of the panel said they were not opposed to the others.

But one section deleted by the administration would have divulged that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's civil liberties protection officer had "conducted reviews of the potentially problematic programs and has established procedures" for intelligence officials to file complaints about possible civil liberties and privacy abuses.



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[truthisfreedom]

1. I believe bush has presided over the greatest number of resignations in the history of America.

Anyone have figures?

[TheMadMonk]

5. Not to mention the "resignations" nt

[Up2Late]

2. I don't know how much more of this "good news" I can take.

I think my mind is about to shut down due to all this Orwellian News.:hide:

I never lived in the Soviet Union, but I wonder if it ever got this bad there?:banghead:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. You are kidding, right? n/t

[Up2Late]

10. I don't know if I would call it "kidding," but yeah, that's why I used the quotes around...

..."good news" and the word Orwellian.

I guess I just assume that everyone here has read George Orwell's books "1984" and "Animal Farm." If you haven't read them yet, you should.

Personally, I still need to read "Brave New World," I think they made a movie of it but, like "1984," I doubt it's as good as the book.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

11. I meant your asking if things ever got this bad in the Soviet Union. n/t

[badgervan]

3. To the Younger Generation....

we need to clean up our government, and it starts with your generation. Get out there.

[salin]

4. k & r

[Thor_MN]

7. Wouldn't editing the report of your experts be considered "MicroManaging"?

[Justice]

8. Lanny J. Davis was a Bush enabler

he rode on air force one and talked about what a great guy Bush was. Guess, finally Lanny has had enough. Wonder if Lanny will admit how wrong he was.

[Kelvin Mace]

9. Not a chance

The reason he's a loyal Bushie is because he is an expert at cognitive dissonance. We'll see how long it takes him to slink back to BushCo.