WP Editorial: Time for the Civil Liberties Oversight Protection Board
Terrorist and terrorism has dominated the nation speak for nearly a decade, but the call of historians, privacy advocates, civil libertarians, civil rights, and human rights experts has been transparency and oversight. Toward that end, Congress followed the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and created the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to keep a watchful eye on the use of surveillance authority by federal government agencies. The capacities and abilities of government to create a surveillance state was recognized by the establishment of laws to curtail the use of surveillance, limit data collection, retention, use, and sharing at the beginning of the computer information age. Managing the technology of surveillance and the policy that may drive its use will be the job of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
The White House lets idle an important civil liberties panel, Editorial, Washington Post, Monday, April 12, 2010
