[PiN-diskusjon] Help EFF Continue the Fight Against Warrantless Wiretapping! (fwd)

[Thomas Gramstad]

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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:00:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: Electronic Frontier Foundation <membership at eff.org>
Subject: Help EFF Continue the Fight Against Warrantless Wiretapping!

Dear Friend of Freedom,

In a move that I can only describe as cowardice, Congress
just passed legislation meant to immunize telephone
companies for their illegal, disloyal, and irresponsible
behavior. EFF has been fighting against telecom immunity,
and we need your help to bring the fight to the next level:

http://secure.eff.org/wiretapping

Two and a half years ago, EFF sued AT&T on behalf of its
customers, seeking to hold the telecom giant responsible
for its craven complicity in the White House's illegal
warrantless wiretapping program.

Since then, the phone companies and their allies in
Washington have spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying
Congress to grant them retroactive immunity. They ran
ridiculous fear-mongering attack ads against any politician
who dared to oppose them. President Bush threatened to veto
any bill that allowed EFF's lawsuit to continue.

Yesterday, Congress completely capitulated to the
President's threats and voted to let the telecoms off the
hook. If the telecoms are not held accountable, the
administration will remain unchecked in its warrantless
wiretapping of innocent Americans. This must stop!

We need your help to take the fight to the next level.
We're going to challenge Congress's unconstitutional grant
of immunity in our case against AT&T. We're going to fight
for a congressional repeal of immunity in the next
Congress. And we're going to file a new lawsuit against the
government, challenging its warrantless surveillance
practices, past, present and future.

Now, more than ever, we need your support!

http://secure.eff.org/wiretapping

The fight for civil liberties would never have come this
far without your help. We can't give up now. Help EFF
today!

Sincerely,
Shari

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Shari Steele
Executive Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation
454 Shotwell Street
San Francisco CA 94110
http://www.eff.org/

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