I want to buy a paper tiger I can call my own

This is the apotheosis of Bush administration incompetence at governance--a federal agency that exists only as a box on an org chart. But then its mission is unimportant: safeguarding our privacy and civil liberties.

Privacy Guardian Is Still a Paper Tiger - Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — For Americans troubled by the prospect of federal agents eavesdropping on their phone conversations or combing through their Internet records, there is good news: A little-known board exists in the White House whose purpose is to ensure that privacy and civil liberties are protected in the fight against terrorism.

Someday, it might actually meet.

Initially proposed by the bipartisan commission that investigated the
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight
Board was created by the intelligence overhaul that President Bush
signed into law in December 2004.

More than a year later, it exists only on paper.

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