Final FISA Redux?

Once again from an e-mail from Michael Kieschnick of CREDO from Working Assets:

Yesterday we wrote you and asked you to contact the three Senators currently running for President so they could return to Washington and defend our rights to privacy and the rule of law in the debate over wiretapping.

We've just learned that Senate leaders are now rushing to pass bad legislation -- legislation that gives retroactive immunity to telecom companies that helped the Bush Administration break the law and spy illegally on Americans. Will you contact your senators today and urge them to stop this legislation immediately?

Tell your senators to uphold their oath of office: no retroactive immunity and no warrantless wiretapping.

CREDO members have already sent over 68,000 emails to Senators Clinton, McCain, and Obama this week, asking them to say no to retroactive immunity and any laws that make it easier for the government to invade your privacy.

But now the fight is moving to the Senate floor. Bush and his allies have made it crystal clear that they will allow legislation designed to allow surveillance of terrorists to die unless that bill protects AT&T and Verizon. We need every senator possible to stand up against the Bush Administration and the telecom companies. Remind them once again to do their jobs, before they cravenly throw the rule of law out the window just because they're afraid of what their opponent's next attack ad will say.

This may be our last chance to stop warrantless wiretapping and retroactive immunity. Please take action today.

The big telecom companies are giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to Senate reelection campaign coffers. They want their get-out-of-jail-free card in the form of retroactive immunity. President Bush has indicated that he will refuse to sign a FISA law that does not include amnesty for AT&T and Verizon, making it clear that he cares more about protecting his cronies from prosecution than securing Americans against the threat of terrorism.

Click here to send a message to your senators today.

Now is the time for us to make our voices heard in the halls of the Senate. Please take a few minutes to contact your senators today.

Thank you for working to halt the big telecom companies' assault on our Constitution.

Michael Kieschnick, President and Co-Founder
CREDO Mobile / Working Assets

You can follow through on this call-for-action via a web form found here.

24 January 2008