Under the RADAR
posted by The Sailor @ 6:23 PM Permalink With all the Walter Reed and Scooter Libby news this may have slipped by you.The White House investigates the White House and finds that the White House didn't do anything wrong. What a surprise!
White House privacy board OKs surveillance programs
A White House privacy board is giving its stamp of approval to two of the Bush administration's controversial surveillance programs — electronic eavesdropping and financial tracking — and says they do not violate citizens' civil liberties.
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After operating mostly in secret for a year, the five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Board is preparing to release its first report to Congress next week.
The report finds that both the National Security Agency's warrantless-eavesdropping program and the Treasury Department's monitoring of international banking transactions have sufficient privacy protections, three board members said in interviews.
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