Reply #3: Could be.

[magellan]

That happened with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board. From Countdown Tuesday night:

LANNY DAVIS, RESIGNED FROM PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES BOARD: Hello, Keith.

OLBERMANN: So the 9/11 Commission suggested this oversight board. The “Washington Post” says the administration made hundreds of revisions and deletions to its very first report? What is going on here?

DAVIS: Look, I have to start by saying that this is a genuine difference of opinion. The White House council, Fred Fielding, who was on the 9/11 Commission, disagreed with the process of editing and deleting aspects of our report to Congress. But there are people in the White House and in the administration who saw this legislation putting us in the Office of the President as creating a board that was part of the White House staff no different than anybody else. And that was their opinion.

My opinion was that the Congress intended us to provide real oversight, but in-house criticism and review of some of these programs that might have infringed on civil liberties, such as the national security letters, which the inspector general of the Justice Department did say constituted serious abuses. Now that difference of opinion, where the White House council actually agreeing with my view, means that the real problem is Congress in creating what is a square peg in a round hole, putting what should be an oversight independent entity in the Office of the President.

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