This indifference comes notwithstanding former President Barack Obama’s movement to expand to information sharing among agencies just days before Trump took position and after the Trump government indicated its desire to maintain widespread surveillance.
Amid this lack of awareness toward the NSA, the president lately called a staunch advocate of mass surveillance to chair one of the few obstacles standing between interfering government spying and the American people’s privacy. The Retreat and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) was founded in 2004 at the suggestion of the 9/11 Committee and was intended “to help the executive branch discretion national security preferences with individual rights,” the News reported earlier this year.
“PCLOB is thought to have five members, no higher than three of whom appear from the same political party; to engage a full-time chairperson; to have proper access to the 17 intelligence agencies; and to issue unclassified versions of its evaluations of U.S. surveillance powers.”
However, as of March of this year, the council was down to just one part-time post, and this lack of organization rendered it largely impotent.
“But with just one part-time board member left, after different member’s term ended last week, the company has very few formal powers to guard the so-called ‘deep state’ until President Trump nominates a new board,” the News published pursuant to emails they received regarding the outstanding single member.
Though the board had been declining before Trump became president, it may presently be further weakened as a result of his new appointment.
“Mr. Klein is the Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, where his research concentrates on the junction of national security policy and law. He earlier served as a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.”
Though the usually hated late Antonin Scalia was deemed somewhat of a defender of the 4th amendment, Klein fails to offer a powerful buffer between interfering policies and the American people.
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