Stop Amnesty for Illegal Wiretaps

The important message below is from the ACLU. Please consider clicking through and signing their petition.

Congress is considering a plan to offer pre-emptive immunity to phone companies that may have conducted illegal wiretaps. That's outrageous and should be stopped.

The Senate will soon vote on a bill that will fix the illegal electronic eavesdropping on Americans. Yet, we don't know if they will take up a bill written closely with the Bush administration that is dangerous to the rule of and gives immunity to telecom companies that illegally handed over the phone and email records of thousands of Americans or if they will vote on a much more reasonable bill that upholds the rule of law and does not let lawbreakers off the hook.

That's a choice that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has to make. We need to tell him to make the right choice.

Senator Reid needs to hear from every American who wants him to stand up for our privacy and not let phone companies off the hook. You can take action by signing a petition to Senator Reid now:

https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=Reid_FISA_petition3