Please help stop the surveillance bills currently in Senate committee
All of the following content is directly from the EFF website. They said it as well as I could.
Please visit their Action Center for how you can make your voice heard. Since most of my readers are in Texas, it is important to note that John Cornyn is on the relevant committee.
â??The White House and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) have come to a sham compromise that would sweep the NSA’s illegal spying program and any further government surveillance under the rug, shuffling legal challenges out of the traditional court system and into the shadowy FISA courts. This bill would stack the deck against anyone suing to stop illegal surveillance such as the wholesale violation of the Fourth Amendment alleged in EFF’s suit against AT&T.
The Judiciary Committee will likely vote on this bill soon, and possibly an even worse bill authored by Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH). Check below to see if your Senators are on the committee — if they are, please call them immediately and tell them to reject these proposals.â?
Yes, I have called and spoken to a staffer for Sen. Cornyn. You can register your call at the EFF site. There is more background available. The staffer was non-committal to Sen. Cornyn’s view on these bills, so more calls are definitely needed to indicate his constituents’ displeasure at legalizing wiretapping American citizens without a warrant.