Urgent: Block new wiretapping "compromise" = CREDO Action ALERT

[L. Coyote]

Urgent: Block new wiretapping "compromise"
June 12, 2008 4:07 PM
From: "Michael Kieschnick, CREDO Action" ...

CREDO Action: Tools for Change from Working Assets

Urgent: Say No to Senator Bond's FISA Capitulation

No Compromise on Bush's illegal wiretapping.
Congress should not capitulate to President Bush's lame-duck demands for warrantless wiretapping and retroactive immunity.


Click here to take action = http://act.credoaction.com/

Here we go again. For over 30 years, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has dictated necessary and appropriate ways for the U.S. government to collect intelligence on its own citizens for the sake of national security. In February, the House of Representatives rejected President Bush's FISA "reform" proposals and protected our Constitution—but now the Senate is getting ready to cave in again.

Senator Kit Bond, Republican of Missouri, is now proposing a complete overhaul of FISA. He calls it a "compromise," but we call it a catastrophe. It includes unlimited warrantless wiretapping for the executive branch for the next six years—without meaningful judicial oversight—and also grants retroactive immunity to the telecom companies that are alleged to have helped the Bush Administration wiretap us without the warrants required by FISA.

Tell Rep. Inslee to reject the latest FISA "compromise from the Senate."

In order to avoid this disastrous legislation, all the House has to do is stand strong on their February vote, and stick with the current version of FISA. Send a message to Rep. Inslee today and ask him to vote for the Constitution by voting against Senator Bond's catastrophic FISA "compromise" when it comes to the House.

Click here to sign the petition to your representative. = http://act.credoaction.com/

After you take action, please be sure to pass word along to a few friends. We can win this fight, but only if our representatives hear from us in big numbers.

Thank you for working to build a better world.

Michael Kieschnick, President
CREDO Mobile

P.P.S.—Great news out of the Supreme Court this morning, with a ruling affirming habeas corpus rights for the prisoners being held indefinitely at Guantanamo. Read more about it on our blog, or the blogs of our friends at the Alliance for Justice (SCOTUS Blog) or the American Civil Liberties Union.

http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=740&id=366-688752-ICcpG6&t=11
http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=741&id=366-688752-ICcpG6&t=12

[annabanana]

1. Done. k&r. . . n/t

[Luminous Animal]

2. Kicked and bookmarked for when I get home from work.

[wtmusic]

3. Thanks, K&R!

[ThomWV]

4. K&R This is the single most important issue facing the nation today

Nothing is more important that the denial of immunity to the telecoms. I would not care a bit if their liability was limited to one single dollar, but they must be brought into court to testify.

[bluesmail]

5. Did it, and did it ever feel good to do it. n/t

[peacetalksforall]

6. You only have the DLC to worry about. Yes, I'm bitter.

Bond, of all people proposing a compromise.

What they don't ask us to believe.

In six years we'll be 100% owned by United States of America corporations and foreign friends of the barons sister and brother corporations.

The U.K., Canada, Australis, and New Zealand will probably all be under the same corporate law as we will be.