Democrat quits panel on privacy
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The lone Democrat on a White House privacy board has abruptly resigned, citing disagreements with the Bush administration over the board’s role in protecting civil liberties.
Lanny J. Davis, a Washington lawyer and former Clinton White House counsel, said this week he no longer believed the five-member board was sufficiently independent to provide oversight of government surveillance.
Leaders of the Sept. 11 commission criticized the board last week, saying it was not doing its job and questioning many of the findings in the board’s annual report to Congress.
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