The job included diverse duties, ranging from analysis of administration policy, court decisions, and pending legislation to advice on clemency and extradition questions.

In this role, he coordinated administration policy on privacy and data protection, including interfacing with privacy officials in foreign countries.

This enabled political appointees to follow the evolution of administration policy.

This makes it a source of independent and sometimes critical analyses vis--vis the administrations policies.

In 1999, students cancelled their parties to protest other administration policies.