updated Fri. January 12, 2024
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Lawfare (blog)
March 15, 2018
... voiced dissatisfaction with two other cabinet secretaries and the crap pile of ethical issues among presidential appointees got higher—the White House announced two quality nominations for the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). Those, at least, offer something to be optimistic about.
FederalNewsRadio.com
March 14, 2018
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board could add two more members. President Trump announced plans to nominate Ed Felten and Jane Nitze as members. Currently the PCLOB has one member instead of the usual four. Felten is a former deputy CTO and Nitze is a former attorney for the Office ofÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
March 13, 2018
The White House announced two nominations Tuesday for positions on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). Pending confirmation, Jane Nitze and Ed Felten would join Adam Klein, whom the president nominated to chair the board in August. Nitze has clerked for Justices SoniaÃâà...
Just Security
February 12, 2018
When I first encountered Brand, in her previous role as a Republican member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board during the Obama ... Decamping to the private sector, she spent a few years at the firm WilmerHale, returned to public service as a member of the PCLOB, worked at the the U.S.Ãâà...
ABC2 News
February 9, 2018
"She has the gravitas of being the third ranking official in the Department of Justice, but also the subject matter expertise on Section 702 from her time serving on the bipartisan Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board," Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd, who leads the department's Office ofÃâà...
Washington Examiner
January 23, 2018
Adam Klein's nomination to lead the largely dormant Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee on ... Guliani said she's also concerned that if Klein were confirmed there would be two Republicans and no Democrats on the five-person PCLOB, which took aÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
September 14, 2017
The nomination of Adam Klein as chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is a welcome move by the president. Klein has excellent credentials for this position, having served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and most recently as a senior fellow at theÃâà...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
September 11, 2017
The White House's announcement of its intent to appoint Adam I. Klein as chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has raised hopes the appointment might begin to resuscitate it. PCLOB has a troubled history and has not developed into a sustained source of oversight of U.S.Ãâà...
Washington Examiner
August 30, 2017
Adam Klein, announced Friday as Trump's pick for chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, has taken sides in one of the biggest ... "While best known for its work on FISA, the PCLOB has jurisdiction over counterterrorism programs generally, and and we encourage it to evaluate andÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
August 28, 2017
On Friday, the White House announced that the President intends to nominate Adam Klein to be a Member and the Chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. If confirmed, Adam will join Beth Collins, who is currently the only member of the Board. This is an important step. As a number ofÃâà...
New Europe
July 3, 2017
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), has been represented by the US government to play a prominent role in ensuring that the transatlantic legal framework works effectively. The PCLOB previous work on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and Section 215 of theÃâà...
Slate Magazine
June 26, 2017
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, or PCLOB, is a little-known agency that's had an outsize influence in recent years on the debate over government spying. The board's job is to make sure that when the executive branch takes action to defend the country, Americans' privacy rights and civilÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
February 2, 2017
With this week's White House announcement of an intent to nominate additional leadership officials at the Department of Justice, one of whom is current Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) member Rachel Brand, the PCLOB is one step closer to conducting its business with a loneÃâà...
Just Security
December 31, 1999
We also support giving the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) a role in reviewing the agreements and conducting the specified compliance reviews. And we agree with those that have argued that the grounds for certifying a partner country as sufficiently human-rights compliant should beÃâà...
