This is intimately linked with the FISA battle and issues of warrantless wiretaps and telecommunications immunity.
While we are busy fighting them on one front, they are busy doing sneaky rotten stuff on another. It is the most vicious game of Whack-a-Weasel imaginable and the weasels never, ever let up.
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.[Source]
You know how Bush hates oversight, accountability, transparency, honesty, and the rule of law.
--the BB
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