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Privacy Oversight Member Resigns Following Admin Censorship

HeadlineMay 15, 2007

And a member of the civilian panel created to oversee government protection of personal privacy has resigned in protest of White House censorship of the board’s first report. The congressionally mandated Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board had unanimously voted to send the report to lawmakers. But the Bush administration made more than 200 revisions — including the deletion of a passage on anti-terrorism programs that intelligence officials had cited as a potential intrusion on civil liberties.

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