Dick Cheney Wants Access to Your E-mail

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" Mark Hull-Richter " <mhrichter

Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:18:02 -0700 (PDT)

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Dear M....,

 

It's true. Dick Cheney and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) have

agreed that the government should be able to access Americans'

conversations and emails without getting an individualized warrant.

But that isn't all they're after.

 

Under the guise of responding to the NSA spying scandal, the Bush

administration and its allies in Congress are actually pushing for new

ways to invade your privacy, with unprecedented and dangerous spying

legislation crafted under Dick Cheney's supervision.

 

The bad news is, if these bills pass, our homes, cell phone

records and email inboxes will be laid bare to new kinds of government

spying that are currently completely illegal. The good news is that we

have a chance to stop these bills now, before White House pressure

drives them to a speedy vote.

 

This August you can help generate a public outcry that will make

Congress think twice before they hand over even more power to the Bush

administration. Call your member of Congress today,

https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?alertId=471 & pg=makeACall & JServSessionIdr00\

5=3mltcmj6z7.app27a

and get the word out in your local community with a letter to the editor.

http://action.aclu.org/site/PageServer?pagename=LTE_cheney_specter_nsa

 

This legislation is being characterized by some as " surveillance

we can live with, " but the fact is it would vastly expand the

government's power to search and spy on Americans without any judicial

checks, including reading any email you send if the government does

not know where all the recipients are physically located.

 

Don't be deceived by claims the Cheney-Specter bill restores

judicial review. The legislation really tries to make warrants

optional while allowing a secret court to rubber-stamp surveillance of

Americans, without even knowing the names of Americans to be

wiretapped or whether they've done anything wrong. We are running

advertisements and working with every contact we have in the major

news outlets to counteract the government's spin, but we need your help.

 

If you've had enough of an administration that's proven itself

grossly indifferent to the rule of law and the balance of power time

and time again, on issues from warrantless spying, to secret

kidnapping, to the unlawful treatment of Guantanamo detainees, now is

the time to say " NO MORE. "

 

Just last week, President Bush and Attorney General Gonzales were

pushing Congress to rubber-stamp a new plan for military commissions

at Guantanamo that would violate U.S. law and the Geneva conventions,

flying in the face of the recent Supreme Court ruling striking down

the entire Bush-sponsored system of detainee trials.

 

Use the links above to learn more about the Cheney-backed

proposals and get involved during this critical month of action. You

can help get out the truth about this bill and the dangers it poses.

 

Throughout August, we'll be calling on you to help cut through the

White House spin and tell Congress how toxic these bills are to our

basic freedoms. They need to hear the wave of opposition while they're

on their summer break. And we're counting on you to help turn the

tide, by speaking out at home and online.

 

Thank you for standing with us.

 

Sincerely,

Anthony Romero, ACLU

Anthony D. Romero

Executive Director

American Civil Liberties Union

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Hull-Richter, U.S. Citizen & Patriot

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