Well, I'm not impressed.

"Several members of a government board appointed to guard privacy and civil liberties during the war on terror say they're impressed with the protections built into the Bush administration's electronic eavesdropping program," -Associated Press

But, as Justin Rood points out we really need to take this boards report with a grain of salt. Here is the money quote from Rood's report:

"As Kate Martin of the watchdog group Center for National Security Studies told me today: "They're using this board for public window-dressing, which is what we were worried they would do.""

Why should we citizens be skeptical of the Bush Administration actions on important issues like this? Perhaps this quote from a Bush Administration officals will refresh your memory:

"The [Bush] aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

-Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush

By RON SUSKIND October 17, 2004