2008-03-03 White House guts Intelligence Oversight Board

2008-03-03 Satyam Khanna ThinkProgress \George W. Bush\War on Terror http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/03/white-house-guts-intelligence-oversight-board/ White House guts Intelligence Oversight Board &ldquo;the White House issued a new executive order effectively gutting the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB), "created in 1976 in the wake of widespread abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies."&rdquo;  the White House issued a new executive order effectively gutting the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB), "created in 1976 in the wake of widespread abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies." Under the order, many of the IOB's investigative powers will now be transfered to DNI Mike McConnell. "Rather than intelligence agencies reporting their activities to the board for review, they will now report them to McConnell," the AP notes. Smintheus has more.   