More than that, Mr. Hunt is a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, a key oversight body.
It had rejected Hunt's suggestion of scrapping existing safeguards and instead giving the Care Quality Commission, the NHS care regulator, key oversight on that.
Last October, Senator Patrick Leahy, of Vermont, proposed the U.S.A. Freedom Act, which would curtail some of the N.S.A.'s domestic powers with an independent FISA advocate, more legal authority for a key oversight board, and more stringent legal standards for obtaining phone metadata and other records.
So if you want to know how Clinton would deal with Wall Street, there are better questions to ask than who she gave speeches to, like precisely what reforms she'd like to see beyond Dodd-Frank and what kind of people she'd appoint to key oversight positions in agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
While the EU-US Privacy Shield is over two years' old at this point, president Trump has failed to nominate a permanent ombudsperson to a key oversight role.
It has since received approval from two key oversight committees.
By the 2000s, men like Cox who favored a light touch sat atop key oversight agencies.
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Instead of appointing agents of real change, he named Wall Street insiders Tim Geithner and Larry Summers to key oversight positions and appointed a consummate triangulator and centrist, Rahm Emanuel, as his Chief of Staff.
In February 2013, a month after McCrory took office, Republican leaders blitzed Democrats and proposed Senate Bill 10, which would have allowed the governor to fire sitting members on several key oversight and advisory boards.
