The American Civil Liberties Union balked at initial...
The American Civil Liberties Union balked at initial reports that President Barack Obama may not overhaul government surveillance practices to a degree it deems sufficient. Obama is scheduled to talk Friday about what changes he’s going to make. The speech…
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“will not only determine the direction of national security policies and programs, but also define his civil liberties legacy,” said ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero in a statement Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1eDXAMR). “If the speech is anything like what is being reported, the president will go down in history for having retained and defended George W. Bush’s surveillance programs rather than reformed them. Keeping the storage of all Americans’ data in government hands and asking ‘lawmakers to weigh in,’ as reported, is passing the buck -- when the buck should stop with the president.”