"Michelle Richardson of the American Civil Liberties Union said her organization “was concerned about (the privacy board’s) functioning and being understaffed…up till last May,” but that a lot of the ACLU’s concerns were answered by this year’s report.
Richardson said the ACLU agrees with the assertion that the Section 215 program has not helped deter terrorist plots. She said the privacy board is well positioned to influence NSA reform in a way that the ACLU and other civil liberties groups are not."
- Date Published:03/12/2014
- Original Publication:Capital News Service