Obama Neglects Privacy Rights
If President Obama meeting with an independent board dedicated to protecting Americans’ privacy and civil liberties today makes you feel better about the ever-expanding NSA scandal, wake up and smell the public relations. The president has been insisting there has been plenty of government oversight and reassuring the public the FISA court is transparent (the latter being such an obvious lie), and it’s almost like every time Obama or someone else in his administration says something, new information comes out to contradict it. Obama’s meeting with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board today is notable for two reasons: 1) we now know there is such a thing as the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and 2) before today, the number of times Obama had met with this board is zero. Zilch. None.
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