[Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: Join our team to fix FISA]

[Gerry Gras]

Conyers and Leahy are asking for help to fight against
Bush re FISA and immunity for telecoms.

Gerry


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Subject: Join our team to fix FISA
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:40:54 GMT
From: "Patrick Leahy & John Conyers" <info at leahyforvermont.com>
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To: "Gerald Gras" <gerrygras at earthlink.net>



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Dear Gerald,

Make sure your neighbors & Members of Congress know the truth about FISA.

Write a Letter-to-the-Editor at FixFISA.com!
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Click here to send a letter-to-the-editor to your hometown paper now.
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As the chairmen of the U.S. House and Senate Judiciary Committees tasked
with modernizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), we
are working hard in Congress to pass a FISA bill that protects our
national security, preserves our civil liberties, and denies the
Senate's retroactive immunity to phone companies that participated in
the Bush-Cheney Administration warrantless surveillance program.

Now we're at a critical juncture. The House and Senate have passed
different versions of the new FISA legislation, and we are meeting to
resolve those differences.  The president and his Republican allies are
using this opportunity to pressure our colleagues to give in and grant
retroactive immunity.  President Bush has been irresponsibly making
false claims that we are more vulnerable to terrorism until a new bill
is passed.

That's why we need your help, right now, to push back against the White
House while the final FISA bill is being negotiated. Will you write a
letter-to-the-editor of your local newspaper to speak out and build
grassroots support for fixing FISA the right way? Help us respond to
White House scare tactics, preserve our civil liberties, and reject the
Senate's telecom immunity.

Click here to send a FISA letter-to-the-editor to your hometown paper
now.
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We're pushing back against right-wing pressure. So now the Bush-Cheney
Administration is ratcheting up their scare tactics and suggesting that
congressional Democrats' efforts to get the FISA bill right this time
will invite another terrorist attack. They are trying to scare Congress
and the American people into accepting a FISA bill that includes the
Senate-passed retroactive telecom immunity and erodes our privacy rights.

They've even launched a controversial television ad evoking ticking
time-bomb imagery straight out of primetime's 24 to shock the American
people into supporting another flawed FISA law. We've seen these tactics
before, but we can't let them get away with it this time.  We are
pushing for a better FISA bill in Congress, but a few loud voices in
Washington are more determined than ever to ram through another flawed
piece of legislation.

Help build grassroots support across America and fight back against the
right-wing fear machine: Visit FixFISA.com now.
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Your letter-to-the-editor will ensure that friends and neighbors in your
own community see past the Bush-Cheney Administration's fear-mongering.
And when your Members of Congress turn to the editorial page in their
hometown newspaper, they'll know where you stand on siding with those
who conducted illegal warrantless surveillance.

We have teamed up to push for a final FISA bill that protects our
national security, preserves our civil liberties, and refuses the
Senate-passed retroactive immunity for telecom companies. But we need
your support to get this bill passed.

Thank you for taking the time to write a letter-to-the-editor of your
local newspaper
<http://ga3.org/campaign/fixfisa/8enneuxzr7b5wnj5?source=mar4_fisa_leahy>,
and for working with us to get FISA right this time.

Sincerely,

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John Conyers
Chairman
House Judiciary Committee

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Patrick Leahy
Chairman
Senate Judiciary Committee

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