Action Alert – National Call-In to Stop the Surveillance

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has issued an action alert on two bills in Congress seeking to legalize, post-facto, the Bush wiretapping operations ruled unconstitutional by a Federal District Court last month. Please reach out to your elected representatives and let them know  your opinion. EFF is a great organziation. If you are not already a member, please consider supporting their work. There is a permanent link on my right-hand sidebar, as well as in the action alert below.

Congress returns from recess this week, and EFF is joining a
coalition of organizations for a two week national call-in
to stop the dangerous NSA spying bills. Visit our Action
Center to call your members of Congress now, and spread the
word to friends and family about these bills. Let’s keep the
phones ringing in the Congressional halls for two weeks
straight!

http://action.eff.org/fisa

Senator Arlen Specter is still rushing to pass his
surveillance bill, which would help the government and the
NSA continue to break the law by spying on ordinary
Americans. He’s planning a committee vote this Thursday, and
a vote by the entire Senate as early as next week.
Meanwhile, Senator Mike DeWine has proposed a bill that
would attempt to retroactively legalize the NSA dragnet
surveillance.

That’s bad enough, but now there’s another dangerous bill
afoot in the House — Representative Heather Wilson’s H.R.
5825. The House will hold a hearing tomorrow (Wednesday,
September 6) on this proposal, and a vote may shortly
follow.