The three separate reviews of national surveillance programs...
The three separate reviews of national surveillance programs that have been announced are insufficient because they'll be “unable to find out the full details needed to stop the government’s abuse of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act and Section 702…
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of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” EFF Senior Attorney Mark Jaycox wrote in a blog post last week (http://bit.ly/16FIz7p). The review being done by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board can’t compel agencies to turn over information, he wrote: It “is unable to fulfill its mission as it has no choice but to base its analysis on a steady diet of carefully crafted statements from the intelligence community.” The Senate Intelligence Committee -- which has also said it will review the surveillance programs -- has “time and time again ... failed at providing any semblance of oversight,” he wrote. Finally, the review being directed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is “full of insiders and not directed to look at the extensive abuse,” meaning it “will never get at the bottom of the unconstitutional spying,” Jaycox wrote.