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   From: Bodine@ReBarge.net   
      
   Urged by President Bush after the 9/11 attacks, Congress passed legislation   
   in 2001 that greatly expanded domestic spying programs. Programs that failed   
   to include even basic Constitutional safeguards.   
      
   Today, champions of Constitutional Rights in the Senate are using the   
   PATRIOT ACT reauthorization process to reverse the worst abuses and have   
   introduced the JUSTICE ACT.   
      
   The JUSTICE ACT would completely repeal the provision of the FISA Amendments   
   Act intended to legally immunize big telecoms that illegally assisted in the   
   National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program. It would restore   
   protections for the privacy of library and bookstore records. And it would   
   also add strong checks and balances to PATRIOT ACT provisions governing FISA   
   orders, wiretaps and national security letters.   
      
   Our friends and allies at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the   
   Campaign for Reader Privacy believe this is our best chance for getting   
   reform this year. Please sign the petition.   
   http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/repeal_telecom_immunity/?rc=alternet   
      
   Kick republican fascists in the balls.   
      
      
   Don Hazen   
   Executive Editor, AlterNet.org   
      
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