May 15, 2007

Board Member Resigns Over White House Changes to Privacy Board's Report

The Bush administration made more than 200 revisions to the first report of a civilian board that oversees government protection of personal privacy, including the deletion of a passage on anti-terrorism programs that intelligence officials deemed "potentially problematic" intrusions on civil liberties, according to a draft of the report obtained by The Washington Post. One of the panel's five members, Democrat Lanny J. Davis, resigned in protest Monday over deletions ordered by White House lawyers and aides.

White House Edits to Privacy Board's Report Spur Resignation, Washington Post, May 15, 2007.