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Change We're Getting Stuck With: Another Blow to Civil Liberties by Obama's White House
Submitted by Glen Allport on Thu, 2009-09-03 16:00
ProPublica's Christopher Flavelle on the White House erasing "all mention of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board from its Web site" ? reversing a previous position. The Board was created on recommendation of the 9/11 Commission (but never staffed), apparently to provide the illusion that the Bill of Rights was not actually being dismantled.
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