Looking Ahead

Last year, the September 11 Commission recommended that a centralized federal office be established to protect civil liberties in the campaign against terrorism. The Senate agreed and pushed the White House to get it in place by establishing a board and a budget. Five months have now passed and there is no board in place or any immediate plans to have one. The White House is working on it! Does this lack of action tell you anything at all about the priorities of this administration? Even with the White House able to stack the board with their own neocon look-alike/think-alike members, they really don’t want to address civil liberties; it cramps their style. Check again in 2006.