[privacy] Checks? Balances? Same Agencies to Run, Oversee Surveillance Program

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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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/

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