Trump promised to keep spying agencies in check. Then he fired the watchdogs he appointed

Get the Full StoryA new lawsuit calls the firings illegal and seeks to revitalize a little-known oversight board that helps protect U.S. and EU privacy.

President Donald Trump vowed to fight government abuse and introduce more transparency, a stance that might align him with a little-known agency charged with watching over the U.S. s powerful spying programs. Lately it s investigated and critiqued the intelligence community s secret terrorist watchlist, its fight against domestic extremism, and its warrantless searching of Americans emails. The agency, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, is also central to a hard-won agreement that allows U.S. companies like Meta and X to handle Europeans data.

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