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Tell Senate to Allow Telecom Lawsuits
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Progressive Portal
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Nov 15, 2007 12:35 PST
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STOP LEGISLATION THAT WOULD GRANT IMMUNITY TO
TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES FOR HELPING SPY ON
AMERICANS' CALLS AND E-MAILS WITHOUT WARRANTS
[From the American Civil Liberties Union <http://www.aclu.org>]
A House bill, "the RESTORE Act" (H.R. 3773), attempts to fix the
disastrous "Protect America Act" that was rushed through Congress in
August, rubberstamping the administration's warrantless wiretapping
program.
But the bill caves in to Bush's fear-mongering in two major ways: it
does NOT require the government to get an individual warrant before
wiretapping an American's phone calls and emails. Instead, it allows for
program or basket "warrants," which aren't really warrants at all.
They're the modern-day equivalent of allowing government agents to sit
in our living rooms, recording our personal conversations -- only
they're more frightening, because they give the government the capacity
to monitor us remotely and without our knowledge, and to save the
information in a secret database forever.
The second major flaw is that a draft of the bill grants immunity for
telecommunications companies that broke the law by handing over
Americans' private communications to the government without court
orders.
Please, write your representative and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi right
now. Tell them to only pass a FISA modernization bill that has
individualized warrants for people in the United States and NOT to
provide telecom companies with immunity for breaking the law.
Take Action
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CALIFORNIANS: Send this message to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who could be
the crucial vote on whether to grant immunity to the telecom companies:
Californians click here:
https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?id=753&page=UserAction
EVERYONE: Write your member of the House of Representatives (with a copy
to Speaker Nancy Pelosi) opposing "basket warrants" and immunity for the
telecoms:
https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?id=727&page=UserAction
More Information
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http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/32773prs20071114.html
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