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Michael Clark, a classicist living in eastern Pennsylvania. Generally well informed about things as of a few millenia ago, but often the last to know the "news".
SHARE Saturday, March 1, 2008 Bush guts Advisory Board's oversight of illegal intelligence activities
On Friday afternoon the White House posted without fanfare a new Executive Order that revamps an important though little known intelligence board. There are a few minor changes, but the most radical revision appears to be that the board has now been stripped of nearly all its powers to investigate and check illegal intelligence activities