double-double-secret
A citizen-viewer writes: “Am i the only one who thinks this headline is funny?” in reference to this AP article:
No, you’re not the only one. But that’s not even the funniest part.
WASHINGTON - 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.
Catch that? “After operating mostly in secret for a year”! So this isn’t just a privacy board, it’s a secret privacy board.
And since the members “serve at the pleasure of Bush,” it’s really a private secret privacy board.
I would assume that had the private secret privacy board decided that the eavesdropping programs did violate citizens’ civil liberties, its members would have been privately, secretly killed.
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Bush's appointees say he is doing wonderful on something, in this case privacy.
I am sure the report was required by legislation, but it was a waste of time and money.
Now when the Justice Dept. Inspector reported that the FBI grossly violated the Patriot Act on the use of National Security Letters that did surprise me. Not that they had violated the law, but that some in Justice would say so.