Abracadabra! Bush Makes Privacy Board Vanish
Ryan Singel writes on Wired News:
The Bush administration has failed to nominate any candidates to a newly empowered privacy and civil-liberties commission. This leaves the board without any members, even as Congress prepares to give the Bush administration extraordinary powers to wiretap without warrants inside the United States.More here.
The failure rankles Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), respectively chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate's Homeland Security Committee.
"I urge the president to move swiftly to nominate members to the new board to preserve the public’s faith in our promise to protect their privacy and civil liberties as we work to protect the country against terrorism," Lieberman said in a statement.
"The White House's failure to move forward with appointing the new board is unacceptable, and I call on the administration to do so as quickly as possible to prevent a gap in this vital mission," Collins said in a statement.
posted by Fergie @ 2/04/2008 07:46:00 PM
1 Comments:
Why is this such a problem for the jokers in the administration? They've never been very slow when previously nominating incompetent do-nothings to other high posts of office... Surely Alberto Gonzales has some free time on his hands these days.
The last sentence might be funny if it weren't so scarily possible.
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