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Free-Fax Your Senators: Don't Legalize Warrantless Wiretaps!

Senator Arlen Specter's solution for the President's refusal to obey U.S. law requiring warrants for wiretapping Americans is to change the pesky law in order to make the President's warrantless wiretapping program legal. Thousands of faxes and phone calls have flooded Senate offices, including more than 1300 faxes from our BORDC network. But Specter seems determined to fulfill his promise to the administration: to pass his National Security Surveillance Act, S. 2453, which would make the prevailing law on domestic wiretaps, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), optional.

The Senate Judiciary Committee that Senator Specter chairs will take up S. 2453 on Thursday, August 3. If a vote is taken, the bill is likely to pass the committee along party lines, paving the way for a full Senate vote in September.

Don't let S. 2453 become law. On August 1 and 2, please tell your Senators to investigate the President's program and its affect on the privacy of Americans. This is not the time for Congress to pass legislation legalizing a secret program it does not understand, especially legislation like S. 2453, which opens the door to even more secret surveillance programs! Go here to send a fax.

If you've already sent faxes, thank you! Keep the pressure on by phoning your Senators to ask what they're doing to protect the Fourth Amendment by stopping S. 2453 from becoming law. Look up their phone numbers here

Thank you for all you do to defend our civil liberties!
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee