Join our team to fix FISA

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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),


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



Click here to send a letter to the editor to your hometown paper now.

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 while this bill remains

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.

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 now.

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 and for working with us to get FISA right this time.

Sincerely,




John Conyers
Chairman
House Judiciary Committee



Patrick Leahy
Chairman
Senate Judiciary Committee

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