By Anthony Gregory<\/p>\n
In the Bush era, civil liberties were all the rage. The Democrats pushed back, if only very slightly, against Bush’s powergrabs on surveillance and detention policy. In 2004 a “Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board” was created to help oversee the threats of the war on terror against our constitutional rights. Although this was a hollow shell of real oversight, just another government trick to make us think that “checks and balances” were keeping our freedoms secure, it’s all the more hollow now: Under Obama, the entire board has been vacant this whole time<\/a>. Thanks to Tom Mullen for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Anthony Gregory In the Bush era, civil liberties were all the rage. The Democrats pushed back, if only very slightly, against Bush’s powergrabs on surveillance and detention policy. In 2004 a “Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board” was created to help oversee the threats of the war on terror against our constitutional rights. Although […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}