Senate set to forgive teclos for spying on Americans with the NSA: TAKE ACTION NOW!

Tim from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "At EFF, we've just sent out an urgent action alert. Monday morning, the Foreign Intelligence Service Bill bill finally goes to the Senate floor, and at noon the Senate will cast their most important votes yet on Telecom Immunity for participation in massive, nationwide illegal NSA wiretapping. We've set up an action alert page for Boing Boing readers to contact their Senators, and would be much obliged if you could share the link."

The Senate is poised to grant retroactive immunity for telecoms that broke the law! On Monday, there will be critical, make-or-break votes in the Senate -- contact your Senator immediately to stop telecom immunity!

Senate lawmakers must support Senator Chris Dodd and other heroes in allowing a full debate to proceed on Monday, and they must vote to strip telecom immunity from the bill.

The Senate should not let the telecoms off the hook. Granting immunity sets a dangerous precedent, sending the message that lawbreaking is acceptable and that the rights of Americans can be freely infringed by private companies in defiance of the law. And though the debate about the proper process of collecting foreign intelligence is complex, the issue of telecom immunity is not. The facts are simple enough: the telecoms broke the law, so the Senate should let Americans have their day in court.

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See also:

EFF suing AT&T for helping NSA illegally spy on Americans

William Gibson on NSA wiretapping

StopTheSpying: Tell the Dems to keep AT&T on the hook for NSA wiretapping

Time's Joe Klein gets everything wrong in column about NSA domestic spying

Congress: don't cripple the suit against the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program

NSA domestic spying: reaction from a crypto mail-list moderator

NSA's domestic data-mining ops gathered vast troves of info

NSA spies on US: calls, emails intercepted without warrants

Data mining prompted fight over NSA domestic spying program

ACLU map of NSA's domestic phone, 'net surveillance

Liveblogging court hearings: NSA's spying, AT&T's alleged complicity

AT&T built warrantless wiretap rooms for the NSA

CALL CONGRESS NOW: NSA wiretapping to be legalized THIS WEEK!

Schneier op-ed on unchecked presidential power, NSA spying

Government appeals its loss in NSA/ATT domestic spying case

Act NOW to keep NSA cases in public court

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