The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board’s 17th meeting

Recommended by the July 22, 2004, report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission), the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was established by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. It consists of five members appointed by and serving at the pleasure of the President. The Chairman and Vice Chairman are confirmed by the Senate. Board members are selected from among trustworthy and distinguished citizens outside the Federal Government who are qualified on the basis of achievement, experience, and independence. The Board is part of the White House Office within the Executive Office of the President and supported by an Executive Director and staff.


The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board’s seventeenth meeting will be hosted by Georgetown University in Gaston Hall at Healy Hall on December 5, 2006, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. This will be the first public meeting of the Board, and it is designed as an expert’s forum in which the Board will solicit comments from non-governmental individuals and organizations with an interest and expertise in privacy and civil liberties issues arising in the context of the government’s actions to protect the nation from terrorism. The Board has also invited privacy and civil liberties officers from a number of federal departments and agencies, including the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Terrorist Screening Center, to attend.


Members of the public interested in attending this meeting as audience members register at http://www12.georgetown.edu/sfs/rsvp/campus.