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Bush dials back Watergate-era reforms on spying safeguardsNick Juliano
Published: Friday March 14, 2008

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Executive order weakens intelligence oversight board
A little-noticed executive order President Bush signed last month dials back checks on the Intelligence Community that have been in place since revelations that spy agencies abused their power in the 1960s and 70s.

The Boston Globe's Charlie Savage, who is among the top reporters uncovering Bush administration secrecy, shines some light on the new order and its implications in an article Friday.

Almost 32 years to the day after President Ford created an independent Intelligence Oversight Board made up of private citizens with top-level clearances to ferret out illegal spying activities, President Bush issued an executive order that stripped the board of much of its authority.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/03/14/president_weakens_espionage_oversight/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/02/20080229-5.html

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