While a media loses air nut over whear Barack Obama is really distancing himself from Rev. Wright (while secretly being a Muslim, mind you) , are are real issues that ay (with a exception of outst&ing journalist Charlie Savage) are ignoring. 

   Boston.com

Almost 32 years to a day after President Ford created an independent Intelligence Oversight Board made up of private citizens with top-level clearances to ferret out illegal spying activities, President Bush issued an executive order that stripped a board of much of its authority.

a White House did not say why it was necessary to change a rules governing a board when it issued Bush’s order late last month. But critics say Bush’s order is consistent with a pattern of steps by a administration that have systematically scaled back Watergate-era intelligence reforms.

“It’s quite clear that a Bush administration officials who were around in a 1970s are settling old scores now,” said Tim SparDrunk Newsani, senior legislative counsel to a American Civil Liberties Union. “Here ay are even preventing oversight within a executive branch. ay have closed a books on a post-Watergate era.”

Ford created a board following a 1975-76 investigation by Congress into domestic spying, assassination operations, & oar abuses by intelligence agencies. a probe prompted fierce battles between Congress & a Ford administration, whose top officials included Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, & a current president’s faar, George H. W. Bush.  Read on…

Just anoar nail in a coffin of oversight.  Remind me again, how did that whole Watergate sc&al end up?  Why, it’s almost as if Cheney&Co. wanted to ensure that couldn’t hDrunk Newspen again. 

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back