Comments on: GWB’s Privacy and Civil Liberties Board http://themoderatevoice.com/12832/gwbs-privacy-and-civil-liberties-board/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:29:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: kritter http://themoderatevoice.com/12832/gwbs-privacy-and-civil-liberties-board/comment-page-1/#comment-80629 kritter Wed, 16 May 2007 01:57:38 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/law-legal-matters/12832/gwbs-privacy-and-civil-liberties-board/#comment-80629 Why bother to have the board in the first place, if it was to be just another tool of the WH with no independence???? I'm sure that was not the intent of the 9/11 Commission who recommended it in the first place. Good for Lanny Davis for resigning and coming out with the truth. More public servants need to be this vigilant. Why bother to have the board in the first place, if it was to be just another tool of the WH with no independence???? I’m sure that was not the intent of the 9/11 Commission who recommended it in the first place. Good for Lanny Davis for resigning and coming out with the truth. More public servants need to be this vigilant.

]]> By: domajot http://themoderatevoice.com/12832/gwbs-privacy-and-civil-liberties-board/comment-page-1/#comment-80519 domajot Tue, 15 May 2007 19:03:26 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/law-legal-matters/12832/gwbs-privacy-and-civil-liberties-board/#comment-80519 I always thought the civil liberties board was a cruel joke. It was Bush's ideas of a compromise - it gave him the ability to say there was one. The lack of indepence, though, was right there in its stated role. It could only offer information and advisories. Knowing how secretive the WH is, I'm not surprised that even the advice is secret, edited and put away in a dark place. I always thought the civil liberties board was a cruel joke.
It was Bush’s ideas of a compromise – it gave him the ability to say there was one.

The lack of indepence, though, was right there in its stated role. It could only offer information and advisories.
Knowing how secretive the WH is, I’m not surprised that even the advice is secret, edited and put away in a dark place.

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