LWVVUS ACTION ALERT: Stand Up Against Administration Fear Tactics

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ACTION ALERT: Stand Up Against Administration Fear Tactics 

Your Representative in Congress needs to be encouraged to keep protecting
America's basic civil liberties against the administration's fear tactics.
The administration wants to continue warrantless wiretapping of American
citizens and to let telecommunications companies off the hook for possible
illegal eavesdropping. 

The 110th Congress has already spent innumerable legislative hours
discussing surveillance legislation.  Earlier this month, the Senate passed
S. 2248, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2007, which
allows for limitless warrantless wiretapping by the executive branch and
includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies.  These
companies have allowed the administration to use corporate resources to spy
on innocent Americans. 

The House of Representatives voted to adjourn for the President's Day recess
without considering S. 2248, thereby resisting administration claims that
this would leave America vulnerable to terrorism.

Take <http://capwiz.com/lwv/utr/1/OCPAIDGCHK/OJEEIDKXQI/1767581286>  action
today to encourage your Representative to keep protecting civil liberties by
continuing to stand against the administration's fear tactics!

Tell your Member of Congress to limit the ability of government agencies to
obtain information about American citizens without the appropriate judicial
constraints.  While the intelligence community needs the authority to track
terrorists abroad, this should be done without threatening our civil
liberties.

TAKE <http://capwiz.com/lwv/utr/1/OCPAIDGCHK/JDABIDKXQJ/1767581286>  ACTION

1. Contact <http://capwiz.com/lwv/utr/1/OCPAIDGCHK/OHLUIDKXQK/1767581286>
your Representative now, by phone or by email, and tell him or her to
continue to stand up against S. 2248.  Tell him or her that warrantless
wiretapping of Americans is unacceptable in a democracy and remind your
Representative that blanket retroactive immunity for telecommunications
companies is wrong.
2. Send this alert to other concerned citizens - your grassroots network,
your friends and coworkers.  Encourage them to contact their Representative
today! 

BACKGROUND

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about what the League has done to protect civil liberties. 

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For additional information, please contact LWVUS Grassroots Lobbyist
Christina Vamvas at lobbying at lwv.org.


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