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[privacy] Checks? Balances? Same Agencies to Run, Oversee Surveillance Program
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 20:42:02 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Washington Post. [snip] The Bush administration plans to leave oversight of its expanded foreign eavesdropping program to the same government officials who supervise the surveillance activities and to the intelligence personnel who carry them out, senior government officials said yesterday. The law, which permits intercepting Americans' calls and e-mails without a warrant if the communications involve overseas transmission, gives Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales responsibility for creating the broad procedures determining whose telephone calls and e-mails are collected. It also gives McConnell and Gonzales the role of assessing compliance with those procedures. The law, signed Sunday by President Bush after being pushed through the Senate and House over the weekend, does not contain provisions for outside oversight -- unlike an earlier House measure that called for audits every 60 days by the Justice Department's inspector general. [snip] More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/06/AR200708060 1303.html - - ferg p.s. See also: http://www.slate.com/id/2171747/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGuNkXq1pz9mNUZTMRAgkmAKD6dLPgAhGHYIoQyLLQVG0ZmWAoewCg/+LP IhXYkOMd0b7w8kt82yun5cc= =tYMF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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