Obama orders creation of intelligence review group

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Obama orders creation of intelligence review group

AP foreign, Monday August 12 2013

DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Associated Press= EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama is directing his national intelligence director to form a panel of outside experts to review government intelligence and communications technologies.

It's one of the reforms Obama promised last week to help instill public confidence in U.S. surveillance programs exposed by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.

In a memorandum Obama signed Monday and released by the White House, he asks intelligence director James Clapper to empanel outside experts to review U.S. surveillance technologies, particularly how the government can maintain the public trust and how such surveillance affects foreign policy at a time when more and more information is becoming public.

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[grasswire]

1. Ha!! Another Blue Ribbon Panel!!

With members picked by James Clapper!!

Whee!!!!!!!!!

[cherokeeprogressive]

2. To review "technologies". Why not PROCEDURES?

[Waiting For Everyman]

3. He must think we just fell off the turnip truck. nt

[grasswire]

7. it's heart breaking to think a Democrat has such a poor opinion of his base.

Maybe it's the "soft bigotry of low expectations"

[Boom Sound 416]

13. No. He's sure of it

[backscatter712]

4. Tactic #32 to fend off popular discontent: Punt to a Special Committee!

The committee will meet a few times in the next few months, murmur some soothing words to assuage the anger, let a few months pass so people cool down and get distracted by the next shiny thing on TV. OH LOOK! IT'S HONEY BOO BOO CHILD!

Then the committee will send a white paper full of half-assed recommendations back to the President and Congress, where they'll languish.

[grasswire]

6. yep, someone predicted this on DU over the weekend.

A blue ribbon commission.

The old stalllllllll....

[cthulu2016]

5. I hope Clapper selects the Least Untruthful panelists

[grasswire]

9. their identities might be secret! nt

[usGovOwesUs3Trillion]

8. Finally

And heads need to roll and changes implemented to make these programs conform with the rule of law.

[Demo_Chris]

10. This is like hiring pedophiles to work at daycare centers because "They're great with kids."

I don't want select panels meeting in secret telling me that everything is okay. I want transparency, I want the persecution of whistleblowers stopped, I want the people who violated the constitution prosecuted, and I want these programs ENDED.

[forestpath]

12. +1000

[forestpath]

11. Has Obama ever thought about just not LYING as a way to maintain the public trust?

[Demo_Chris]

14. That's a radical leftist solution sir. nt

[forestpath]

16. It's ma'am, but you can call me a radical leftist anytime!

[neverforget]

15. Least untruthful Clapper gets to pick the panel

to "review government intelligence and communications technologies". What about the Constitutional issues that these technologies bring? Isn't that what this is all about?