Administration to Bypass Reporting Law.

The Bush administration has informed Congress that it is bypassing a law intended to forbid political interference with reports to lawmakers by the Department of Homeland Security. The August 2007 law requires the agency's chief privacy officer to report each year about Homeland Security activities that affect privacy, and requires that the reports be submitted directly to Congress ''without any prior comment or amendment'' by superiors at the department or the White House. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]