Great news: Surveillance review panel stacked with intel leaders and WH staffers

Hot Air ^ | 8/22/13 | Ed Morrissey

[Nachum]

Don’t you feel more confident in our NSA overlords already? ABC and the Washington Post finds a number of familiar names on the panel created by Barack Obama to review the surveillance activities of the NSA and American intelligence in general. In fact, you could call them the usual suspects:

A group of veteran security experts and former White House officials has been selected to conduct a full review of U.S. surveillance programs and other secret government efforts disclosed over recent months, ABC News has learned.

The recent acting head of the CIA, Michael Morell, will be among what President Obama called a “high-level group of outside experts” scrutinizing the controversial programs.

Joining Morell on the panel will be former White House officials Richard Clarke, Cass Sunstein and Peter Swire. An announcement is expected Thursday, a source with knowledge of the matter told ABC News’ Jon Karl.

The Post’s Andrea Peterson reports that privacy advocates are less than impressed:

Privacy advocates aren’t happy with the composition of the group revealed so far. Some privacy groups believe that the White House will insist on all members having top secret clearances, effectively barring most independent privacy watchdogs from consideration for the panel. …

[Nachum]

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[Red_Devil 232]

Cass Sunstein? Are you kidding me?

[oldbrowser]

Cass Sunstein is looking out for my liberty?

"Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law." -- Cass Sunstein,

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Talk about a "stacked deck" !!
the only missing White House folk are Vallerie Jarrett and Axelrod

This review panel will have the same credance st the State Departments investigation into Benghazi !
or the " JUST-US" Dept. investigation of "Fast and Furious "

What a joke !!
Bring out the cowboy clown , at least he can jump hoops,
avoid the bull sh*T , and still have people's attention and make them laugh !

[Standing Wolf]

Hey! How about that new puppy?

[cripplecreek]

Cass Sunstein is an advisor (Propaganda minister) who just happens to be married to Samantha Power.

[MeshugeMikey]

recent acting head of the CIA, Michael Morell, will be among what President Obama called a “high-level group of outside experts” . how outside is THAT?

here we see obama explaining the anatomy of this security coup....

[cripplecreek]

“Why should we be governed by people long dead? … In any case, the group that ratified the Constitution included just a small subset of the society; it excluded all women, the vast majority of African Americans, many of those without property, and numerous others who were not permitted to vote.”

- Cass Sunstein

[Jane Long]

Oh, great...good ol’ Cass Sunstein...what could go wrong??

[cripplecreek]

“In what sense in the money in our pockets and bank accounts fully ‘ours’? Did we earn it by our own autonomous efforts? Could we have inherited it without the assistance of probate courts? Do we save it without the support of bank regulators? Could we spend it if there were no public officials to coordinate the efforts and pool the resources of the community in which we live?… Without taxes there would be no liberty. Without taxes there would be no property. Without taxes, few of us would have any assets worth defending. [It is] a dim fiction that some people enjoy and exercise their rights without placing any burden whatsoever on the public fisc. … There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day …”

-Cass Sunstein

[Jane Long]

That’s another funny one, Mike. Wild 0 and his faithful companion SanFranNan Traveling Show.

[cripplecreek]

“Much of the time, the United States seems to have embraced a confused and pernicious form of individualism. This approach endorses rights of private property and freedom of contract, and respects political liberty, but claims to distrust “government intervention” and insists that people must fend for themselves. This form of so-called individualism is incoherent, a tangle of confusions.”

-Cass Sunstein

[Jane Long]

The socialist hits just keep coming with ol’ Cass.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Nachum ~:" The Post’s Andrea Peterson reports that privacy advocates are less than impressed .."

That is an understatement !

Bwahahahahaha!

Even Lisa Jackson, former EPA aadministrator who vilated ethics , and who now works for Apple would be as credable.
We now have an incestuous government 'daisey-chain' investigating the 'daisey-chain' of NSA unconstitutional warrentless searches!!
I wonder what they will find , ..other than the pee-toot in front of them.

[MeshugeMikey]

Thats one of my all time favorites. the good people over at the peoples cube wanted to know if I wanted to use my REAL NAME to get credit for having produced it....

somehow I though better of it...

given Chris Gagas Popularity.... perhaps he'd make a wonderful security analyst?

HEY guvnor gaga posters SATURATING the entire middle east....could SCARE al Q to death...

[Taxman]

Foxes in the henhouse is what first came to mind!

Government coverup is the next thing!

LIEberals LIE was next!

[RginTN]

Without taxes there would be no liberty

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My goodness. The stupidity.