Today is the day we fight back!
Contact your congressional representative! Tell them to fight the FISA Improvement Act, and to support the USA Freedom Act.
The USA Freedom Act:
- It brings new levels of transparency to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court)
- It introduces a special advocate to champion civil liberties in the FISA court
- It appears to create new statutory limits on mass surveillance by the NSA.
This bill is still young and could easily be improved, to put even more restriction on the NSA and FISA spying and surveillance.
The FISA Improvement Act:
- It would codify the controversial bulk telephone records surveillance program of the NSA.
- It would allow the NSA to continue to collect telephone records of hundreds of millions of Americans not suspected of any crime.
- It would permit the NSA to restart the bulk collection of Internet communication records—an extremely invasive, secret program the government attempted under dubious legal ground but abandoned because it wasn’t effective.
This act will give them power to spy on and collect data on anyone they want, without warrant or reasonable suspicion of a crime. They will collect phone call records, transcripts of texts/tweets/posts and build a file on whomever wrote them.
Please participate in this. It’s easy. Just go to this website and call and/or email your representative.
