Lanny J. Davis , Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board from WH on now

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cspan one. VERY good.

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Lanny J. Davis , Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

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1. said they did not learn of NSA program till read in nytimes, yet they are

suspose to have oversight over it.

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2. Then this board did not have accesses to information 'for months". He

finally resigned.

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3. Lannie's Got The Credibility Of A Soap Dish

It's sad...I used to like Lannie. I don't know what's more telling...how foolish he was to believe this regime was doing nothing more than using him...or that none of us knew about his "oversight" committee. This is truly a weed falling in the forest. Now Lannie can go work fulltime for Hillary.

[Cassandra]

4. That's what I was thinking; what a fool he was to think...

that Bushco cared in any way about civil liberties or oversight. He owes those to the left of him that he's trashed a huge apology. Not that that's likely to happen.

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6. He's A Useful Fool

This "group" appears to have been a whitewash/payback to give Lannie's BFF, Joe Lieberman, some cover.

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7. yes, lots got duped didn't they. But he IS talking now!

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9. Monday 20 February 2006-Privacy Guardian Is Still a Paper Tiger

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/49/17867

Privacy Guardian Is Still a Paper Tiger
By Richard B. Schmitt
The Los Angeles Times

Monday 20 February 2006

A year after its creation, the White House civil liberties board has yet to do a single day of work.

Washington - For Americans troubled by the prospect of federal agents eavesdropping on their phone conversations or combing through their Internet records, there is good news: A little-known board exists in the White House whose purpose is to ensure that privacy and civil liberties are protected in the fight against terrorism.

Someday, it might actually meet.

Initially proposed by the bipartisan commission that investigated the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was created by the intelligence overhaul that President Bush signed into law in December 2004.

More than a year later, it exists only on paper.

Foot-dragging, debate over its budget and powers, and concern over the qualifications of some of its members - one was treasurer of Bush's first campaign for Texas governor - has kept the board from doing a single day of work.

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10. The board chairwoman is Carol E. Dinkins, a Houston lawyer who was a Justice Department official in

The board chairwoman is Carol E. Dinkins, a Houston lawyer who was a Justice Department official in the Reagan administration. A longtime friend of the Bush family, she was the treasurer of George W. Bush's first campaign for governor of Texas, in 1994, and co-chair of Lawyers for Bush-Cheney, which recruited Republican lawyers to handle legal battles after the November 2004 election.

Dinkins, a longtime partner in the Houston law firm of Vinson & Elkins, where Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales once was a partner, has specialized in defending oil and gas companies in environmental lawsuits.

Foremost among her credentials, she told Senate Judiciary Committee members in a response to their questions, was the two years she spent as deputy attorney general in President Reagan's Justice Department. There, she said, she had to weigh civil liberties concerns while overseeing domestic surveillance and counter-intelligence cases.

The board vice chairman is Alan Charles Raul, a Washington lawyer who first suggested the concept of a civil liberties panel in an opinion article in the Los Angeles Times in December 2001. Raul, a former Agriculture Department general counsel currently in private practice, has published a book on privacy and the digital age and is the only panel member with apparent expertise in civil liberties issues.

The panel's lone Democrat, Lanny J. Davis, has known Bush since the two were undergraduates

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11. A longtime friend of the Bush family, she was the treasurer of George W. Bush's first campaign for

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18. I didn't know such a board existed

Of course it was supposed to be independent but the puke congress put it directly under bushco. Get a load of the members...

http://www.privacyboard.gov/

Carol E. Dinkins
Chairwoman

In 1984 she was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the United States, the second-ranking official in the Department of Justice. (under raygun)

n 1997, Governor George W. Bush appointed her as a Commissioner on the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission and in 2000 to chair the Governor's Task Force on Conservation.

Alan Charles Raul
Vice Chairman

Mr. Raul served in the White House as Associate Counsel to the President (1986-1988). During his tenure as Associate Counsel to President Reagan, Mr. Raul represented the White House in connection with the Iran-Contra investigations. He subsequently served as General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President (1988-1989), and then was appointed by President George H. W. Bush, with Senate confirmation, as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1989-1993).

Lanny J. Davis
Member

(Just said on the span he believes bush is an honorable and decent man :puke: )

Theodore B. Olson
Member

Mr. Olson is one of the nation's premier appellate and United States Supreme Court advocates. He has argued 43 cases in the Supreme Court, including Bush v. Palm Beach Country Canvassing Board and Bush v. Gore, stemming from the 2000 presidential election; prevailing in 75% of those arguments.

Francis X. Taylor
Member

Francis X. Taylor was appointed the Chief Security Officer for
the General Electric Company on March 7, 2005. He is responsible for overseeing GE’s global security operations and crisis management processes.

Mark A. Robbins
Executive Director

Prior to taking this position, he served as General Counsel at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management from 2001 to 2006, and on the Bush-Cheney transition team in 2000.

He previously served as Deputy Associate Director for Presidential Personnel at the White House during the Reagan Administration (1984-88), and as a Legislative Assistant to Congressmen David Dreier (1982-84) and John H. Rousselot (1979-82), both of California.

OMG!!!! These are the ones supposedly providing independent oversight of bushco???????



:crazy:

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5. He said it was suppose to set up as an Independent board outside the WH

but WH objected and Congress went along (repug at the time).

This privacy board ended up ansering directly to the WH. fox guarding the coup

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8. Now He's Trashing The Internet

Damn us evil conspiracy mongers! Shame on us all for demanding the truth rather than the party line.

This dude's more isolated than Gilligan's Island.

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27. With that I tried to call in to let him know that the reason people

engage in speculation is because of the dishonesty and secrecy and fearmongering from DC, but couldn't get through. He and his DLC buds are part of this problem, and they sure as hell aren't really trying to be part of a solution either.

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12. "I Think That booooosh Is A Good Man"

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13. Considering that he resigned because of all the problems-he is still LOYAL to Bush

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15. He lost me with that.

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17. yes, Then he went on to say that Gonzo is 'a good man"

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14. The panel's lone Democrat, Lanny J. Davis, has known Bush since the two were undergraduates at Yale.

The panel's lone Democrat, Lanny J. Davis, has known Bush since the two were undergraduates at Yale. Civil liberties groups regard the Washington lawyer, who worked in the Clinton White House, as likely to be a progressive voice on the panel.

The board also includes a conservative Republican legal icon, Washington lawyer and former Bush Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson, whose wife, Barbara, died in the Sept. 11 attacks. The fifth member is Francis X. Taylor, a retired Air Force general and former State Department counter-terrorism coordinator, who is chief security officer at General Electric Co.

The board members declined to comment for this article. Three referred calls to Dinkins, who referred calls to the White House.

The idea of such a watchdog agency was broached almost immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks, as conservatives and liberals alike saw a need for the government to consider the implications of new and growing anti-terrorism measures.

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20. i am surprized to see he is a Democrat.

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22. He Supported Lieberman

Don't ya remember...and we're all dirty f'in' hippies!

:smoke:

He ceased to be a Democrat the day he signed on with Joe's "Party For One".

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16. * Lanny J. Davis, resigned May 14, 2007 (read here):

Board Members

* Carol E. Dinkins, Chairwoman
* Alan Charles Raul, Vice Chairman
* Theodore B. Olson, Member
* Francis X. Taylor, Member
* Mark A. Robbins, Executive Director


Former Board Members

* Lanny J. Davis, resigned May 14, 2007


Contact Information

Web: http://privacyboard.gov/

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Privacy_and_Civil_Liberties_Oversight_Board

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19. "White House Edits to Privacy Board's Report Spur Resignation,"

John Solomon and Ellen Nakashima, "White House Edits to Privacy Board's Report Spur Resignation," Washington Post, May 15, 2007.

[The Witch]

21. What an absolute condescending tool.

I can't believe I tuned in having any hope that he would be able to speak any truth.

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23. He's Been Bought More Times Than Race Tickets On Ebay

The fact none of us ever heard of Lannie's "committee" says a lot about how much "oversight" it was going to conduct. This hack has compromised himself many times over the years and it's obvious this "commission" was to be a prop...rolled out if politically needed and Lannie was supposed to give it the patina of "non-partisan".

He's an alan colmes "democrat"...

:hi:

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25. I did not know of him before this show-but agree---What a fool!!

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24. Well That's 30 Mintues Of Our Lives We'll Never Get Back

Leave it to C-SPAN to give voice to the most useful fools. Surely coming up will be another Washington Slimes reporter.

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26. WOW! Lanny's gone over to the DARK SIDE! What an arrogant, condescending, rude

ass he's become! See what happens when you crawl under rocks with the snakes...you become one! What a shame.

edited pellin

[Skidmore]

28. Lanny is right where he and Lieberman have always been...

making certain that Israel's interests are served by our government.

[Cassandra]

29. Israel's right wing interests...

would be more accurate.