Privacy board: NSA’s internet monitoring is legal

Associated Press ^ | Jul 1, 2014 9:26 PM EDT | Ken Dillanian

[Olog-hai]

An independent privacy and civil liberties board says the NSA’s massive collection of internet data passes constitutional muster and employs “reasonable” protections designed to ensure that private American communications are not misused.

In a report released Tuesday night, the bipartisan, five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board examined a set of NSA surveillance programs disclosed by leaker Edward Snowden …

[Olog-hai]

Who are these guys?

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(from the article):" An independent privacy and civil liberties board says the NSA’s massive collection of internet data passes constitutional muster
and employs “reasonable” protections designed to ensure that private American communications are not misused."

Does this include IRS Lerner's missing emails and blackberry conversations ?

[MCH]

PLCOB on Wikipedia...

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.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Who are these guys?

The “Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board”?

I think George Orwell knew ‘em.

[Talisker]

[Jim Robinson]

B/S. A government board approving unconstitutional government snooping.

[CitizenUSA]

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!

[The Antiyuppie]

I’m sorry, I don’t remember, I must not be a careful voter - did I vote for these people?

[mikefive]

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.

[Olog-hai]

The “independent agency” game; executive divisions that aren’t “independent” one whit.

[Girlene]

Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

In December 2010, President Barack Obama nominated two persons to the Board: Dempsey, and Elisebeth Collins Cook, a former Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice and, at the time, a partner in a Chicago lawfirm.[7][8][9] Those nominations expired at the end of the 111th Congress.

..............."In January 2011, President Obama re-nominated Dempsey and Cook.[10] In December 2011, the Obama administration announced an effort to revitalize the Board as a check against its proposed cybersecurity policies and measures.[11] The President made three additional nominations: David Medine, a former associate director of the Federal Trade Commission, as Chairman; Rachel L. Brand, Chief Counsel for Regulatory Litigation at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a former Assistant Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, as a Member; and Patricia M. Wald, a former federal appeals-court judge, as a Member.[12]

On August 2, 2012, the Senate confirmed four of the Board members: Dempsey, Brand, Cook and Wald.[13] The Senate did not act upon the nomination of David Medine to be chair that time.

The White House renominated Medine in January 2013,[14] and the Senate confirmed him on May 7, 2013 in a 53-45, party-line vote.[15]".......................

[PistolPaknMama]

I don’t remember voting for a privacy board member. They don’t represent me.

[MCH]

The “independent agency” game; executive divisions that aren’t “independent” one whit.

Exactly. All you need to know is that it's part of the executive branch. At that point, the membership is completely irrelevant. Obama worshiping partisan hacks.

[the big wanad]

my 4th Amendment says its a lot of BS

[tumblindice]

NSA director Clapper must not have thought so or he wouldn’t have lied about it.

[Timber Rattler]

In a report released Tuesday night, the bipartisan, five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, appointed by President Barack Obama...

I stopped reading right there.

[Amendment10]

"I stopped reading right there."

That's where I stopped too.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

The "impartial board " was made up of Obama appointees.
That makes as much sense as the Dept. of "JUST-US" investigating the Dept. of "JUST-US "
and expecting a different result ! ... /s