16.08.2013 - 22:28 [ Techdirt ]

Right Before Snowden Leaks, President Obama Fired Nearly All Members On Key Intelligence Advisory Board

Remember last week‘s press conference, where President Obama insisted that he had already kicked off the process of a major review of the way we do intelligence and surveillance in this country — and about how he was going to set up an „outside“ review group to look all this over? The same review group that will be set up by and report to James Clapper (but, the White House assures us, not run by him)?