NP? A Watcher for the Watchers

[Doug Millison]

[...] But right before her ten minutes were up, Cantwell presented the most
original notion of the day. Voicing concern over the new FBI guidelines,
she asked, "why not create a director of privacy and civil liberties
accountability within the agency to be someone to look to be sure that the
culture and the organization is adhering to the policies that protect those
individual civil liberties?" She explained that many firms in the private
sector have a privacy officer whose job it is to ascertain if employees are
abiding by privacy rules. [...]

A Watcher for the Watchers
David Corn
June 14, 2002

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13384

cf. Pynchon's civil liberties concerns as expressed in his intro to Stone
Junction and elsewhere.