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URGENT ALL US CITIZENS, REPRESENTATIVES, & SENATE VOTE "NO" S.2453 "NO" HR5825 THURSDAY SEPT 7th, 20
Added: (Thu Sep 07 2006)
URGENT ALL US CITIZENS, REPRESENTATIVES & SENATE.
URGENT: YOU MUST VOTE "NO" S 2453 YOU MUST VOTE
"NO" HR 5825 URGENT VOTE "NO" THURSDAY SEPTEMBER
7th, 2006 URGENT VOTE NO CHENEY-SPECTER S 2453 NO HR
5825 NO S 2453 NO MEANS NO.
When the Patriot Act was originally passed and then reauthorized,
Congress amended FISA extensively, much to the detriment of the
law’s original civil liberties protections, although the requirement
of warrants for wiretaps was left intact.
However, despite the expanded powers at his disposal, in 2001
Bush authorized the National Security Agency to SECRETLY
wiretap Americans WITHOUT a court order, in VIOLATION
of FISA AND The Fourth Amendment To The CONSTITUTION.
The White House has since STONEWALLED congressional
attempts to INVESTIGATE the administration’s CIRCUMVENTION
of FISA. Bush PERSONALLY BLOCKED an investigation by the
Justice Department regarding the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping
program.
Cheney PERSONALLY BLOCKED telecommunications companies
from TESTIFYING before OUR CONGRESS.
Recently, a Federal Court found the warrantless wiretapping
program ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Several bills have been introduced that would REWARD Bush's,
Cheney's, and the government’s ILLEGAL actions by CHANGING
the LAW to legitimize the programs.
DEMAND The Defeat Of S. 2453, the National Security Surveillance
Act Sponsored by Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) and drafted in close
consultation with the White House, the Cheney-Specter bill would
make complying with FISA and the Fourth Amendment OPTIONAL
for ANY president.
The bill would also vastly EXPAND the government’s
already OVERLY INTRUSIVE ability to conduct warrantless
SURVEILLANCE and physical SEARCHES OF AMERICAN
CITIZENS HOMES & BUSINESSES WITHOUT Judicial check.
Representatives Heather Wilson (R-NM), Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
and Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) have introduced a similar bill, HR 5825,
in the House. That proposal would give the president unprecedented
power to conduct warrantless SPYING and physical searches of
AMERICANS ON AMERICAN SOIL for MONTHS at a time,
WITHOUT ANY judicial check or FINDING that an American
is conspiring with al Qaeda. The bill also AUTHORIZES the
WARANTLESS surveillance program.
The bill allows any act of terrorism to trigger the SUSPENTION
of the court order requirements of FISA.
"Congress must not reward the president’s disregard for the rule
of law with legislation GRANTING AMNESTY to his ILLEGAL
actions," said Lisa Graves, ACLU Senior Counsel for Legislative
Strategy. "FISA was enacted to ensure that NO president could
unilaterally decide who to SECRETLY and INDEFINITELY wiretap
under the GUISE of national security. These bills would allow
terrorism to be used as a PRETEXT for UNDERMINING our
basic Fourth Amendment RIGHTS."
Congress MUST NOT pass bills which give the president a
blank check to VIOLATE the rights of innocent Americans.