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President Gets More Spying Powers and Keeps U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Board from Operating

Who’s Watching the Spies?, by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, Newsweek, Jul 9, 2008

The White House has rejected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s pick for a newly created U.S. government civil liberties board–a move that may doom efforts to get the panel up and running while President Bush remains in office.

…the only government board specifically charged with monitoring the impact of U.S. government actions on civil liberties and privacy interests has a decreasing chance of ever actually meeting, much less doing anything, for the rest of the year.

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