Stop the BUSH COVER UP

Don't let them grandfather bush's crimes in as 'okay after teh fact'

Dear MoveOn member,

President Bush is pressing the Senate to help him cover up his illegal wiretapping, and the Senate may well go along with his plan if they don't hear from you right away. ¹

Here's what's going on: For years the Bush administration has been illegally spying on Americans' phone calls and emails with the willing assistance of big telecom companies like Verizon and AT&T. Lawsuits moving forward against these companies may be the only way we ever find out how far the Bush administration went in breaking the law.²

So the White House is putting enormous pressure on Congress to give the phone companies retroactive immunity for all the laws they broke spying on innocent Americans. And some key Democrats are ready to go along!

Can you help us reach 250,000 signatures on this petition demanding that Congress reject the president's cover-up? The petition text is in the blue box on the right. Clicking the link below will add your name.

http://pol.moveon.org/noimmunity/o.pl?id=11473-6783414-ZB__rD&t=3

It seems hard to believe, but it's true. Just months after Congress capitulated to President Bush and politics of fear, they seem ready to do it again.

This happens again and again because politicians are afraid of being seen as weak on security—and because they buy the conventional wisdom that voters don't really care about constitutional freedoms.

But the truth is that voters understand something that Washington doesn't: There is no trade-off between fundamental liberties and security. In fact, a recent poll by our friends at the ACLU found that an overwhelming majority of Americans want Congress to exercise its oversight authority by forcing the Bush administration to get warrants before wiretapping Americans. Further, Americans strongly oppose giving lawbreaking phone companies amnesty for their actions.³

The New York Times put it perfectly this Saturday:

"The question really is whether Congress should toss out chunks of the Constitution because Mr. Bush finds them inconvenient and some Democrats are afraid to look soft on terrorism... This provision is not primarily about protecting patriotic businessmen, as Mr. Bush claims. It's about ensuring that Mr. Bush and his aides never have to go to court to explain how many laws they've broken. It is a collusion between lawmakers and the White House that means that no one is ever held accountable." ⁴

News reports indicate that Democratic senators agreed to give phone companies retroactive immunity after the Bush administration presented a one-sided case that these companies "acted in good faith."⁵

That's ridiculous. A judge appointed by President Bush Sr. wrote an opinion finding that "AT&T cannot seriously contend that a reasonable entity in its position could have believed that the alleged domestic dragnet was legal."⁶

The bottom line is that President Bush is trying to cover up his own lawbreaking with this immunity.

We need Congress to stop him. Senator Chris Dodd has courageously vowed to block this bill if the immunity provision is not taken out.⁷ We need to make sure other members of Congress come out and support his strong stand.

If enough of us sign, we can make it plain just how broad the support for preserving the Constitution is.

http://pol.moveon.org/noimmunity/o.pl?id=11473-6783414-ZB__rD&t=4

Thanks for all you do,

–Nita, Tanya, Karin, Jennifer, and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Sources:

1. Senate Panel Approves New Surveillance Bill, Washington Post, October 19, 2007
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3080&id=11473-6783414-ZB__rD&t=5

2. "Congress Stand Firm: America Deserves A Legal Decision on Warrantless Wiretapping," Electronic Frontier Foundation, October 10, 2007
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005480.php#005480

3. Voters Vigorously Oppose Warrantless Wiretaps, Blanket Warrants, And Telecom Amnesty, American Civil Liberties Union, October 15, 2007
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3081&id=11473-6783414-ZB__rD&t=6

4. With Democrats Like These ..., New York Times, October 20, 2007
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3082&id=11473-6783414-ZB__rD&t=7

5. "Senate Deal on Immunity for Phone Companies," New York Times, October 18, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/washington/18nsa.html

6. "AT&T, other telecoms, buy victory in lawsuits," Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com, October 18, 2007
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3068&id=11473-6783414-ZB__rD&t=8

7. Senator Chris Dodd, Statement
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3086&id=11473-6783414-ZB__rD&t=9

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