Bush's Civil Liberties

Americans got a dose of what the Bush Administration considers to be civil liberties with the first public airing of the rather cloistered Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. The board was a recommendation of the 9/11 Commission and mandated by law in 2004 -- however, it wasn't official until early 2006, due to inaction by the White House. Now that the board has assembled, they've made it quite clear that their mandate is to "help advance national security and the rights of American by helping explain how the government safeguards U.S. personal information." Other than that, everything they do is secret. That's right. The board put in place to protect Americans from their own government, will operate as an arm of the government, and in so doing, will operate just like the government. Can we say WTF folks?

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