Gagging The Privacy Board

Privacy Oversight Member Resigns Following Admin Censorship

And finally, a member of the civilian panel created to oversee government protection of personal privacy has resigned in protest of White House censorship of the board’s first report. The Congressionally-mandated Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board had unanimously voted to send the report to lawmakers. But the Bush administration made more than two hundred revisions -- including the deletion of a passage on anti-terrorism programs that intelligence officials had cited as a potential intrusion on civil liberties.

Source: Democracy Now, May 15, 2007