Does this include IRS Lerner's missing emails and blackberry conversations ?
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is an independent agency within the executive branch of the United States government, established by Congress in 2004 to advise the President and other senior executive branch officials to ensure that concerns with respect to privacy and civil liberties are appropriately considered in the development and implementation of all laws, regulations, and executive branch policies related to terrorism.
In other words, Obama's goons say it's all OK.
>> Who are these guys?
The “Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board”?
I think George Orwell knew em.
B/S. A government board approving unconstitutional government snooping.
BS. The US Constitution was clearly written to strictly limit what the federal government can do. The protections for We the People are expansive, while the limits on government are clearly enumerated. The constitution, for example, says...
4th Amendment: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects[a], against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.[2]”
That seems pretty straightforward to me. Want to collect “metadata” on me? First, find probable cause that I’m guilty of a crime that justifies such data collection and then get a warrant. Otherwise, leave me alone!
Notice the AP calls it a bipartisan board, but doesn’t say it was a bipartisan vote. I wonder what the actual breakdown of the vote was.
I don’t remember voting for a privacy board member. They don’t represent me.
NSA director Clapper must not have thought so or he wouldn’t have lied about it.
I stopped reading right there.