It's way worse than 1942

Fort Minor: Kenji

Secret Spy Rooms:
That's life without civil liberties

Dear ja,
If you sent an email in 2003, there's a good chance your government grabbed a copy of it. That's because in 2003, the National Security Agency set up a secret, 24-by-48 foot room in a downtown San Francisco telecommunications building to tap into one of the nation's largest Internet data hubs and illegally retrieve millions of emails and other communications.1 This is not a conspiracy theory; according to the sworn affidavit of an AT&T technician, this actually happened. Tomorrow a federal court will hear two lawsuits against the NSA's unconstitutional "special project." The arguments will be long and drawn out, but in a sense our own Congress has already made it moot -- just before leaving on vacation they voted to make the administration's spying programs legal.2Congress will re-consider that legal protection in just six months, so we need to show them NOW that this is not the behavior we will accept. No more secret rooms siphoning off our e-mails and telephone calls.

Tell Congress to take back their permission for warrantless spying on Americans http://act.truemajorityaction.org/o/2/t/1/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=20

Here's the text of the petition:
"We are Americans, and in our America we do not torture, we do not imprison people without charge or legal recourse, allow our phones and emails to be tapped without a court order, and above all we do not give any President unchecked power. I pledge to fight to protect and defend the Constitution from assault by any President. I insist that my elected representatives in Congress do the same."

TrueMajorityACTION is joining with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, MoveOn and other major national groups in the American Freedom Campaign, which will be an ongoing project to protect our civil liberties and roll back the damage that has already been done by this administration. Members of those groups, and other citizens around America are already signing on to words like those above.In six months, Congress will have an opportunity to overturn the wiretap bill. Let's make sure they do the right thing then and every other time. Let's take our country back,
Matt Holland
TrueMajorityACTION.org Online Director

1. "Lawsuits May Illuminate Methods of Spy Program," Washington Post, August 14, 2007.

2. "House Approves Wiretap Measure," Washington Post, August 5, 2007.

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