Please forward widely!
Free-Fax Your Senators: Don't Legalize Warrantless Wiretaps!
Senator Arlen Specter's solution for the President's refusal to obey
U.S. law requiring warrants for wiretapping Americans is to change the
pesky law in order to make the President's warrantless wiretapping
program legal. Thousands of faxes and phone calls have flooded Senate
offices, including more than 1300 faxes from our BORDC network. But
Specter seems determined to fulfill his promise to the administration:
to pass his National Security Surveillance Act, S. 2453, which would
make the prevailing law on domestic wiretaps, the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA), optional.
The Senate Judiciary Committee that Senator Specter chairs will take up
S. 2453 on Thursday, August 3. If a vote is taken, the bill is likely
to pass the committee along party lines, paving the way for a full
Senate vote in September.
Don't let S. 2453 become law. On August 1 and 2, please tell your
Senators to investigate the President's program and its affect on the
privacy of Americans. This is not the time for Congress to pass
legislation legalizing a secret program it does not understand,
especially legislation like S. 2453, which opens the door to even more
secret surveillance programs!
* If you've already sent faxes, thank you! Keep the pressure on by
phoning your Senators to ask what they're doing to protect the Fourth
Amendment by stopping S. 2453 from becoming law. Look up their phone
numbers here: www.senate.gov.
* If you haven't sent your faxes yet, please use BORDC's free fax
page to send an urgent message to your Senators.
Thank you for all you do to defend our civil liberties!
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee
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