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This June 6, 2013 file photo shows a sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The latest study of the the bipartisan Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board takes the opposite view of a different set of National Security Agency surveillance programs revealed last year by former NSA systems administrator Edward Snowden. The board which was to vote on the report on Wednesday, July 2, 2014, found that the NSA's collection of Internet data within the United States passes constitutional muster and employs &quot;reasonable&quot; safeguards designed to protect the rights of Americans. Last January, the first time the board dissected an NSA surveillance program, it found fundamental flaws. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Civil liberties board backs U.S. snooping program, but demands big changes

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 6, 2013 file photo, the sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. A federal oversight board that concluded the NSA’s once-secret phone records surveillance program was unconstitutional is in disarray just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will have only two remaining members as of Jan. 7, and zero Democrats, even though it’s required under federal law to operate as an independent, bipartisan agency. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

US privacy board in disarray before Trump takes office

By TAMI ABDOLLAH - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 6, 2013 file photo, the sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. A federal oversight board that concluded the NSA’s once-secret phone records surveillance program was unconstitutional is in disarray just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will have only two remaining members as of Jan. 7, and zero Democrats, even though it’s required under federal law to operate as an independent, bipartisan agency. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Before Trump’s presidency, US privacy board in disarray

By TAMI ABDOLLAH - Associated Press

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Privacy board gives approval to some NSA spying programs

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 29, 2014, photo, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on current and projected national security threats against the U.S. Clapper, said this week that the loss of state secrets as a result of leaks by former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden was the worst in American history. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Foreign intelligence snooping stopped dozens of terrorist plots: Privacy board

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat, said the National Security Agency "has knowingly acquired tens of thousands of wholly domestic communications even though this law was specifically written to prohibit the warrantless acquisition of wholly domestic communications." (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Privacy panel: Government snooping may hit ‘large scope’ of Americans

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat, warns that Section 702 programs can amount to warrantless “backdoor searches” of Americans’ communications/ (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Senator: FISA snares American communications

The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Jan. 17, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama waves to the audience after he spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Obama insists NSA phone program is legal, disputes oversight panel’s findings

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

FILE - This Thursday, June 6, 2013, file photo, shows a sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world — but not in the United States — that allows the U.S. to conduct surveillance on those machines, The New York Times reported Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. ((AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Privacy board rules NSA snooping illegal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 18, 2013. (Associated Press)

Government panel urges end to phone data spying

By Stephen Braun - Associated Press

**FILE** Demonstrators protest outside of the U.S. Capitol in Washington during a rally to demand that the U.S. Congress investigate the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Privacy board springs to life after NSA revelations

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

President Obama (Associated Press)

Obama meets with privacy watchdog panel … in private

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama talks about national security on Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. Declaring America at a "crossroads" in the fight against terrorism, the president revealed clearer guidelines for the use of deadly drone strikes, including more control by the U.S. military, while leaving key details of the controversial program secret. (Associated Press)

As surveillance scandals swirl, Obama to sit down with privacy board

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

**FILE** President Obama pauses during a statement on the fiscal cliff negotiations with congressional leaders in the briefing room of the White House on Dec. 28, 2012. (Associated Press)

Dormant liberties agency awakens to tasks

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama gestures during a news conference, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, in the White House briefing room in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama fills vacancies on independent privacy board

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Lee H. Hamilton, former Democractic congressman from Indiana and vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

9/11 privacy board fails to meet

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

Illustration: Rubber stamp by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

BOVARD: Abolish the phony privacy board

By James Bovard - The Washington Times