Privacy Board OKs Eavesdropping Programs

[Twist_U_Up]

03-05) 14:24 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --


A White House privacy board has determined that two of the Bush administration's controversial surveillance programs — electronic eavesdropping and financial tracking — do not violate citizens' civil liberties.


After operating mostly in secret for a year, the five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Board is preparing to release its first report to Congress next week.


The report finds that both the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping program and the Treasury Department's monitoring of international banking transactions have sufficient privacy protections, three board members told The Associated Press in telephone interviews.


Both programs have multiple layers of review before sensitive information is accessed, they said.


"We looked at the program, we visited NSA and met with the top people all the way down to those doing the hands-on work," said Carol Dinkins, a Houston lawyer and former Reagan administration assistant attorney general who chairs the board.


"The program is structured and implemented in a way that is properly protective and attentive to civil liberties," she said.
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[John Q. Citizen]

1. boy, is that headline double speak or what?

[robinlynne]

2. WTF? Isn't that congress' job? hello Congress! Are you mad yet? We are.

[Swamp Rat]

3. "We'd also like to add... Big Brother Loves You."

[Twist_U_Up]

10. Damn SR, you havent missed a beat in years

Keep up the excellent artwork. I get a kick out of each pic you post.
If it weren`t so funny I`d cry.

[EST]

4. Just what the hell legitimacy does a "white house privacy

board" have and who conferred this legitimacy on it?

A bit Hitlerish, don't you think?

Under whose auspices was this board created, who are its members, what are their duties and when did they ask permission to create it.

Does the name "Crazy Horowitz" mean anything special to them. To whom do we send the subpoena?

Did Feingold get a copy of this announcement before publication?

[PADemD]

8. The New Supreme Court?

[WinkyDink]

5. "Warrantless eavesdropping" breaks the law, whatever "layers" it has. IT BREAKS THE LAW.

And no "board" is a body sanctioned to determine the legality of said governmental actions, let alone a "White House" one!

OMG. I simply cannot believe it. Nixon is cursing while spinning.

[EST]

9. Prezactly!

Buncha bullshit.

[Trajan]

6. Privacy Board ? ....

WHERE in the US Constitution is the question of free speech, protection against unreasonable search and seizure and other Bill Of Rights questions relegated to a 'Privacy Board' ?

FUCK that Board ..... They do NOT define what MY rights are .....

I've got their 'Privacy Board' hangin .....

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Hey, C'mon. I mean, Ted Olson is on it!

Do you really think it could possibly be partisan?

:rofl:

[Initech]

11. It's official - we are living in bizarro world.