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ministerswife
01-16-2008, 11:39 AM
A friend sent this to me in my e-mail this morning. Can't make head or tails from it myself. Does anyone know? I couldn't think of anywhere else to put it, but if it needs moving, you're welcome to do so. Here goes:


The Senate will soon vote on a bill to regulate the electronic eavesdropping on Americans. What we don't know is whether Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will ask the Senate to take up a bill that was written closely with the Bush administration, or a more reasonable bill.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a choice to make. We need to tell him to make the right choice.
President Bush wants Congress to bury the truth by stopping pending lawsuits against phone companies that illegally handed over the phone calls and emails of Americans. Stopping lawsuits that could uncover the truth about illegal spying lets him off the hook. And it gives no incentives for companies to follow the law in the future. Tell Senator Reid to bring up reasonable bill that does not let lawbreakers off the hook, a bill that brings spying in line with the Constitution.
Tell Senator Reid to bring up a reasonable bill that does not let lawbreakers off the hook, and does not let the government seize your phone calls and emails without a warrant.
Senator Reid needs to hear from every American who wants him to stand up for our privacy and not let phone companies off the hook. You can take action by signing a petition to Senator Reid now.

http://action.aclu.org/reidpetition

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Nanuk
01-16-2008, 01:21 PM
If it's out out by the ACLU, it's pretty much just communist propoganda and alarmist BS.

Chutney Daftcraft
01-16-2008, 01:32 PM
I believe this has to do with the propsed immunity from prosecution that may or may not be granted to the communications companies that handed the NSA, well, anything and everything they asked for.

Basically, those companies broke the law in cooperating with that type of spying, or at least they *allegedy* broke the law. Now they are seeking a free pass from prosecution, as they are trying to set a precedence that spying on Americans is OK.

A good place to start if you're interested in this subject, would be the Electonic Frontier Foundation, or EFF for short. You can do that at http://www.eff.org/