The same day the nation’s top diplomat was fired and a new CIA director picked, President Donald Trump announced plans to add members to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
The White House announced on March 13 that Ed Felten, a Princeton computer scientist and a former White House deputy CTO, and Jane Nitze, a former Justice Department attorney and Supreme Court law clerk would be nominated to PCLOB.
Last September, Trump picked Adam Klein, former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, as PCLOB’s chair. The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced that nomination in February, but a full Senate vote has yet to be scheduled.
