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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama meets new five-member panel reviewing surveillance programs
Source: Reuters
Obama meets new five-member panel reviewing surveillance programs
By Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON | Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:53pm EDT
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama met on Tuesday with a five-member panel he appointed to review the privacy issues involved with U.S. government surveillance programs, the White House said, part of an effort to rebuild public trust after leaks by a former spy agency contractor.
Obama has faced criticism since Edward Snowden, a contractor for the National Security Agency, exposed classified information about U.S. surveillance of telephone calls and emails to journalists, raising concerns about privacy and civil liberties.
The review panel is part of an effort to expand oversight of the programs, which Obama has defended as necessary to protect national security.
Its members are Richard Clarke, a former counterterrorism adviser in the Clinton and Bush White Houses; Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA; Peter Swire, who worked on technology issues in the Obama and Clinton administrations; Geoffrey Stone, a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago, where Obama worked before entering politics; and Cass Sunstein, Obama's former regulatory czar who is married to Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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By Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON | Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:53pm EDT
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama met on Tuesday with a five-member panel he appointed to review the privacy issues involved with U.S. government surveillance programs, the White House said, part of an effort to rebuild public trust after leaks by a former spy agency contractor.
Obama has faced criticism since Edward Snowden, a contractor for the National Security Agency, exposed classified information about U.S. surveillance of telephone calls and emails to journalists, raising concerns about privacy and civil liberties.
The review panel is part of an effort to expand oversight of the programs, which Obama has defended as necessary to protect national security.
Its members are Richard Clarke, a former counterterrorism adviser in the Clinton and Bush White Houses; Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA; Peter Swire, who worked on technology issues in the Obama and Clinton administrations; Geoffrey Stone, a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago, where Obama worked before entering politics; and Cass Sunstein, Obama's former regulatory czar who is married to Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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Obama meets new five-member panel reviewing surveillance programs (Original Post)
Eugene
Aug 2013
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Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)1. Sunstein is a tool
who is fine with a police state.
Clarke is reliable. Perhaps folks can fill us in on the rest. Shame they didn't appoint Coleen Rowley.
neverforget
(9,436 posts)1. Cass Sunstein. I think I'm going to throw up.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)3. I hope he put his cell phone in the fridge. n/t
Abq_Sarah
(2,883 posts)4. Congress is supposed to exercise oversight
A handpicked panel lacks transparency.
pscot
(21,024 posts)6. Where DiFi when you need her?
questionseverything
(9,646 posts)5. dear mr president
5 washington insiders do not an oversight committee make
bobduca
(1,763 posts)7. obligatory obsequeous obama appreciation post
These people all sound like upstanding Americans who will sort this thing out! Not like that mean old Greenwald who is a TRAITOR!11 eleventy.